New Britain herald., 1928-01-04
HF:ARS7'S EXPERTS
 DECLARE PAPERS
 ABSOLUTELY FALSE
New York Publisher, Whose Al. leSed Exposures Reflected
 on Senators, Satisfied
WILLING TO ABIDE BY
 DECISION, HE DECLARES

Tells His Editors to Make No Fur. ther Effort to Prove Authenticity
 Of Documents PurpoFting t6 Nsme Borah, Wheeler, Swanson
 and La Toilette in Gigantic Mex
 ican Slush Fund.
 Washington, Jan. 1 @ - Hand writing experts employed by Will. liam Randolph Hearst at the re- quest of the special senate commit tee investigating the Mexican docu. ments published in his newspapers have pronounced the documents as spurious"
 The report of the experts was made today to the senate investigat. ing committee by William A. De. ford. counsel for MT. Hearst.
 Coincident with the presentation of the report, other witnesses, in- cluding former Ambassador James R. Sheffield. gave testimony ques- tioning the authenticity of the docu- ments obtained for the Hearst newspapers by Miguel Avila. Experts Opinion One of the handwriting exper,s Elbridge w. Stein. of New York city. reported that:
 "All the disputed signatures of P. Elias Gales (president of Mexico) are, in my opinion. bly not genuine.
 "Three disputed singatures of L. Montes De Oca (minister of fi- nance) are. in my opinion, unques- tionably not genuine. There is some evidence that 39 of the disputed documents were written by the same typewriter operator.
 There are changes in the type writer ribbon writing the document on the same machine not consisten nj with the preparation of letters in the regular course of business There are documents on which two typewriters were used in preparing them. which likewise is inconsist ent with the ordinary preparation ol documents"
 ShciS1cld's Denial Flat denial that the American embassy in Mexico City had eve. purchased any Mexican documents Spurious or otherwise" waa made by Sheffield.
 The ambassador was called as g result of recent testimony before the committee that the embassy was reported to have been a gen. erous purchaser" of such docu. ments. Miguel Avila, who procured the documents for the Hearst pub ltcations. was described in this tes. timony as a peddler of such ma. terial.
 MT. Sheffield said he had giver orders that no money or thing oi value was to be given for any docu. ments. He said that last May, Johr Page. a Hearst man. who had Avila procure the alleged Mexican documents. came to him with some papers.
 T expressed great surprise upor seeing them" Sheffield said, adding that he told Page he did not be lieve the loose ledger sheet purport- ing to come from the ledger of the Mexican finance department was genuine because he did not believe that any United States senator. would accept money from Mexico or any other government. as tn. documents purported to show. David l.. Smiley. general manager of the North American Newspape Alliance and former editor in chicl Of the Philadelphia Public Ledger told the committee that John Pagc at one time as a space writer foi the Public Ledger in Mexico City had furnished the Public Ledge, what purported to be copy Of q letter from Senator La Toilette, re- publican. Wisconsin. to Presiden; Gales.
 "Where did you get that lotter?' Senator Johnson shot at Page. who was sitting in the hearing room. T got that letter from a Mexican newcpaperman," Page replied "What was his name?' p,