New Britain herald., 1926-11-30
ONE OF STATES
 OWN WITNESSES
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not proper rebuttal.
 Special Prosecutor Simpson in arguing for admission of the photo- graph said that the testimony of de- fense experts who denied the identi- fication of the print. was based on an enlargement of the disputed print.
 Claims Picture Distorted
 '.We say that enlargement is not a correct print. but a distortion, Simpson told the court
 Hartcorn. who has supervised the making of the photograph offered today testified that he found the ini- tials "E II. s." apparently those of Edward Schwartz. state expert who testified that the card was in his possession for more than three years, at one corner of the card,
 On cross examination Hartcorn sad that he was also q certified public accountant.
 You were previously in circus, V Robert McCarter, chief of defense counsel asked.
 No more than I was q prizefight- CT in the match of stone against Dempsey" Hartcorn replied.
 The answer was stricken out over Simpsons demand that it stand and the witness finally answered "yes and no' to the question regarding his circus experience.
 Did you happen to run across the handwriting of Jane Gibson" Me Carter asked.
 NO" the witness replied.
 Jane Gibson is the states eye witness to the crime. She is a pa tient in Jersey City hospital and testified in this case from a cot. The defense has alleged that she was once a circus rider.
 The witness said that he was em- ployed by a circus at intervals ir 1918 and 1919 to audit books and examine handwriting and that he did not travel with any show.
 Jury Sees Diary
 While Hartcorn was on the wit. ness stand, the diary which Henr, Stevens kept in 1922 was handed tc the jury. Stevens. on the witness stand had said the diary was de. voted principally to the recording o' his luck as sportsman, and ths jurors studied 1t with evident inter. est.
 Four lines written in the diary un. der the date of September 14, 1922 played a major part in the cross e1 animation. It is under this entry that appears the line: Art Apple gate, one blue, six pounds" Severa witnesses called to testify in support of Stevens alibi. said that Arthur Applegate, a neighbor of Stevens caught six pound blueflsh on the evening Of the murders and that fo' this reason they remembered that Stevens was in Lavallette, and not at the scene of the crime.
 Found No Prints
 While Hartcorn was called by the prosecution as handwriting eX' pert and not as finger print expert McCarter drew from him state ment that he had found no thumt print on the calling card found a the scene of the staying and which the state contends, bears the finger print of Willie Stevens.
 The witness had been asked yes terday by Simpson: Did you fine
 ,a1, Iar l ltc af thumb mark ?' the witness had an. swered that he found the initial: "E. H. S." in a corner of the card You didn't mean to say there wal a thumb mark there?" asked Nc. Carter.
 T didn't say anything about g thumb mark" answered the witness The defense has pointed out thai while the state has presented the card as bearing the imprint of Will lie Stevens left index finger. there has been nothing to show that there was also a thumb print, which the defense contends there must have been if Willie had picked up the card.
 McCarter had the witness point out the letters "E. H. s." on the call ing card, to each members of the jury.
 Defense finger print experts had not testified that they found any tni- tials on the card.
 Were you not told since you have taken hold of this case that