El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-06-01
by 4 common law mnrrIage


by a common law marriage.
After that trial, which resulted
against the. claimants, certain Letters
introduced to show that elias Garcis
had recognized little Lillian as hi
daughter had doubt cast on their gen
uineness by the court. There we're
letters, purporting TO have been sen
by Elias Garcia, but which bore nj
signature. They had been written OI
a typewriter, however, and the inl
showed the ribbon was rather new
They we're supposedly written while
Elias Garcia was travelling In Che
middle west. One was on the paper
Of the "Kaiserhof" restaurant in Chi
cago- II was dated 1910.
These letters were again in the
limelight yesterday afternoon and to
day. for they have figured prominent
ly in the charges made by the com
mittee OF three lawyers appointed by
Judge Pope to Investigate the con
duct of Messrs. Marion and Wood in
the Garcia case, tried before Judge
Pope. The committee composed Of
Francis @. Wilson OF Santa Fe; Ste
phen B. Davis, Jr., Of Las Vegas, and
Summers Burkhart of Albuquerque
gave a report that it was their belief
that fraudulent documents had been
introduced by the two Albuquerque
attorneys for the purpose of deceiv
ing the court. This was the fourth
charge made against the two attor'
neys.
Cross Examination.
After he had told what he thought
about these docnments--the Garcia
letters and the two documents from
Marion and Woods office. used as
comparison-Dr. Ewell submitted to
a long cross examination by Judge
Wright.
Asked how he examined typewrit-
ten documents to arrive at his con-
illusions, the witness said that first
he looked at them with the naked
eye. then with a low power magnify
ing glass, and then with a powerful
glass. He said that he made all of
the instruments used in his tests, ex-
cept the high power magnifier. His
magnifying glass, the low power one.
was that of the ordinary jeweler and
it magnified four times. The high
power glass magnified ten times. He
described his instrument called a
~"protractor," which he used to meas
ure and lay off angles after he had
obtained a base line. He gave exhi-
billions of his alleged power to find
tell tale letters in documents.
Is n Years of Age.
Asked by Judge Wright how old
he is, DR.. Ewell replied that he is
II. He told of his career, and said
he had practiced law for several
years and had also p%racticed medi-
cine on his friends and charity pa
with what success" asked Judge
Wright.
THEY are all alive" retorted the
doctor as every m smiled. Hey add
ed that he was nee on the surgical
staff of a free %dispensary in Chicago
for one year.
Asked whether he had ever stu
died chemistry, the doctor said that
he had in the Illinois state normal
and in the Chicago medical
graduating in 1884. II have
it since then in regard to
continued the witness, and in
to paper and sizing, every
week or so. | also studied physics
n schools and since my school days"
Asked whether he had studied pho
.ography the witness said that it had
within his scope Of endeavor,
1ut he did not do his own work.
Judge Wright seemed to lay great
stress on the value of photography
n typewriting Identification and
,lied DR.. Ewell with questions con-
it. Photography for meas
irement is inaccurate unless you
on the negative said DIR.
Iwell.
Judge Wright proceeded to ques-
ion DR.. Ewell very closely concern
ng his knowledge of typewriting and
low he acquired the skill which en-
Ibled him to the parent
Machine" which had produced var
Gus documents. The witness said
hat his education in typewriting had
ONE from experience extending GER
ainly over "a years. Asked about
he various cases in which he had
estified. Dr.. Ewell admitted that
ypewriting had not figured in the
case, nor in the Hartje divorce
ase. nor in the Molineaux poisoning
ase nor in several others; but he
aid it had figured in two notable
ases-the Mcdonald will case in 1891
nd in the Yerkes estate case in
in 1910. He had been in
9th of these cases, but he could not
emember the names of other great
in which he had been called as
witness up to the trial Of the case
{ Garcia VS.. Garcia in Santa Fe.
But" he added promptly, u have
cen consulted in quite a number of
asses and one within the last week
So" (,
The Yerkes Estate. (,
Asked about the Yerkes estate case
lie witness said that it involved a .
Lrge number of tissue paper copies )
/ a will. He said he did not remem
er what typewriting machine figur-
/ in the case. The Mcdonald will
Use was one in which duplicates Of :
will figured. zone was written in :
reen and one in purple said DR.. :
well. ''The question was what ma
line we're they written on" :
Eyesight Is Good.
Judge Wright then questioned the
about his eyesight which /