The diamond drill., 1918-06-29


he claimed the person making the sig
nature had gone back" and added
more ink. He stated that a person
writing his own name has usually a
pointed finish TO II while a traced
signatures generally shows more OF
less retouching such as is always
found in forgeries. He went through
the word letter by letter and pointed
out what he considered efforts OF the
tracer to produce the original form.
when these forms are matched"
said Mr.. Norton. 1T will be found that
the forgerer Is rarely successful In
producing all OF the personal peculi-
arities OF the person whose signatures
they seek to initiate"
Another point brought out by Mr..
Horton was that in connection with
the typewriter. II have examined
some 80 styles of typewriters," said
said Mr.. Horton, "it will be found that
OF the work produced upon each ]
am ready to say that the body OF the
document was prepared upon No.
Smith Premier typewriter" He
then detailed his reasons for the con-
clusion, they being the way that the
letters strike the paper.
He then had several documents that
were known TO have been prepared
upon a typewriter belonging to the
late Z. p. Lott introduced as marked
and by pointing out the similarity OF
effect in the capital "a" and the low.
er case ''v'' and by the peculiar align.
ment in the word same" in severa
! OF the documents he showed why ht
: concluded that the same machin,
which prepared those documents. al
J so prepared the will.
: Mr.. Horizons testimony was ther
: interrupted long enough to have Mis-
Lillian Lindstrom identify a paper a
} one that she had just prepared upoI
: the typewriter of the late Mr.. Lott
D which had been produced by Mr.
Z Lott, Jr.
! Mr.. Horton then pointed out tn
same peculiarities in the Lindstron
Z document and concluded that tn
D typewriter which was introduced Il
S evidence prepared all OF the papers
= Cross examined by Mr.. Rite upo
h the point that the wr,ting OF a ma
T. lying upon his back in a bed woul
O vary from the writing OF the same ma
d sitting at a table, Mr. Horton &C
knowledged that there would be
n difference. but that still there woul
n be the personal characteristics pres
II ent.
o Mr.. Rite then recounted the cor
Il ditions under which this signatur
u was written; a man dying with hear
70 trouble, lying fiat upon his back
N bed, his head propped up on pillow
by an attendant who held it while al
other attendant held the paper Il
him to sign, and he asked Mr.. Horto
le II. under those conditions 1t was n,
J. possible that the "wobbly hand" Il
i "hesitating stroke" the "retracir
rs to touch up" would not occur.
; Mr.. Horizons reply was that tho
u things would appear, but at the san
time the writing would preserve Il
,h peculiar characteristics" OF the san
to hand in good health. Mr. HortC
as added that according to his opini,
It. the man who wrote the signatur
lie Wasn't very sick or he couldn't do
to so slick job"
~ Mr.. Horton added further that
III his opinion the exhibit Is not "wr
ten signature" for the reason Tn
10 there are "too many niceties" to II.
II This practically closed the examI
eu alton OF Mr.. Horton.
Dispositions from a man named Mu
son were produced TO establish I
fact that the signature Of the 9th
he witness was not of a deceased brot
IL er named "W. j. Munson," and al
.st some of the deceased mans sign
at lures but as there was no eontenti
,r- on the part OF the Lott attorneys I'll
al the signature was that of Munson,
m this line of testimony was not go
les into. aAF
in An effort was made by Mr.. Rite
have the case argued Thursday, /
cd this proposal was demurred to
NO Mr.. Dudley and Mr.. Abbott who cou
NJ tered with proposal to submit I
,c- testimony on briefs. Mr.. RI
ed didn't want any OF that, so a final
he rangement was arrived at by VIII
re- Mr. Rite and Mr.. Abbott will go
In Iron Mountain and argue the CT
Did some day in the near future