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were then passed around the jury fo, them to look at

them to look at.
 On cross examination by Attorney Desmond, Mir. Frisbie said he had examined the signatures by a small nlagnifying glass. He was shown the letter and envelope sent by Mir Holmes to Jesse Wilcoxx and called upon to compare the formation of letters in 1t.
 The, attorney had him look at the Lennen signatures on the savings bank orders and the signature on the letter which is an exhibit. The wit ness said they were similar, but va ried a little in heaviness. The witness admitted there was one considerable difference in the size of the letter "s''
 . Leonard P. Church, assistant cash fer and acting paying teller at the Thames National bank at Norwich, lures for the past six years. said that in his opinion the disputed signature was absolutely not written by the same person as the others.
 The down stroke is heavy, almost 8 double line in the admitted sigma lures, MT. Church said. This is not so in the disputed signature. The loop in the letter "LD is rounder and starts at a different point. The upper loop in q mitted signatures. The letter $" is sharp pointed in the admitted sigma tures In the disputed it is rounder
 On cross examination by Attorney Geary, when shown the six signatures written by Capt Lennen in court, MT. Church said the characteristics were all the same. He pointed out a differ ence between the letter "J'' in these signatures and the disputed signature. The "L' in the disputed signature has a similarity, but not the charac- tetistics of Capt. Lennen's admitted signature. Attorney Geary picked out one IL" in the exhibit of six sig natures and asked him if that wasn't ture. The witness admitted there was similarity but the characteristics were missing. The attorney pointed out various letters in the different sig natures which the witness said main tained the characteristics of the ad- mitted signatures though there were differences.
 Frederick F. Gengar, g years book keeper ct the New London City Ma tional bank gave his opinion that the disputed signature was not written by the same person as wrote the admit ted signatures He said he had pick
 
 difficulty when the lot was first shown to him.
 i To Attorney Geary, MT. Fengar said 1 he decided on the general looks of the | signature. He admitted that one sig nature in the group Of six looked cor siderably different from the others. | Nervousness might account for this,
 the witness thought. He discussed the perpendicularity of the "Js in l the signatures.
 Afterneen Session. l Joseph A. Stanners, paying teller 1 for six years at the Union bank, New l London. gave his opinion that the dis
 puted signature and the admitted 1 signatures were not written by the l same person.
 1 To Attorney Geary the witness said 1 he was connected with the same bank
 as. Carlos Barry.
 l MT. Barry was put on last week as a handwriting expert by the defense. 1 The witness admitted there were 1 differences in some of the admitted l signatures but he should say they l we're all written by the same person, He admitted that some of the ELS
 were not exactly alike but all had the same characteristics. The attorney | dlSO ncll lllG N llilESS CCti4lJal lliC lSS 1 ters ''J'' and "s' In the captains sig
 natures the letter "s' was usually 1 larger than the other letters. This i was shown also in the disputed sig nature.
 James ". Williams, auditor and
 head of the financial department Of
 the Mohican hotel New London, and before that with nine months banking experience in Washington,
 testified he had no help in deteflnin- ing the disputed signature and lie be- ieved it was not written by the same person who wrote the others. The
 cross examination of this witness was
 very short and referred chiefly to his qualifications. .-... Wladislaw Vodka, & Russian, whose testimony was interpreted by M. L. Malinowsky. testified he lived upstairs at 1855 North Main street
 last December. and that he was at home on the night Capt. Lennen was assaulted. lie was home all the eve-
 ming. except for Q half hour around 6 o'clock. There was kerosene lamp lighted in the kitchen during the eve ming anG also in the bedroom. The
 bedroom light is kept burning all
 night, the kitchen light was put out by $ o'clock.
 There was 10 cross examination ! and the state then rested at 2ao o.