Evening star., 1935-01-16

my doctors degree in physics. which
helped me later"
Pope moved the answer be stricken
out, but the court admitted 1t.
@. Where did you get instruction.?
A. At Northwestern University
@. Was that special course in
handwriting?
A. That was a special short course
in disputed documents.
@. In making the examination of
the So-called ransom notes. the stand
ard writing and the request writing
you found various discrepancies?
A. l found no discrepancies that
! were not overcome by positive identi-
! fieation.
Large objected that the answer was
! not responsive.
Il think he answered your ques-
| ton" said Justice Trenchard, i don't
, think l will strike it out"
! Fope again asked II he found any
discrepancy in the letters Of the ram
! som writing.
DR. Souder defined discrepancy as
absolute and positive differences
which cannot be recOnciled'
Il found none," he declared with
conviction.
Examined 5000
! Documents in Case.
/ @. How many documents have you
examined in connection with the
case?
! A. Eight thousand.
@. Eight thousand?
A. And more.
@. And among the thousands you
have examined these that were pro-
duced here are the only ones with
evidences OF similarity with the ran
som note handwritings?
A. No. not the only ones.
@. Then there were other writer's
who wrote in this manner?
A. found some as" bearing
similarity to the as" of these notes;
some BIS" and some "c's" But after
consideration they were all discarded
@. Now this capital ID" you have
never seen another written this way,
you say?
A. No. / never have.
G. In all your experience you have
never seen a capital ID" written like
this?
A.. / have never seen another like it.
Methodically Pope went over the
Government experts charts. pointing
out letters and repeatedly urging the
witness to admit there was marked
difference" between some of the char
acters.
Souder, who refused to be hurried in
his answers. said some differences were
apparent, but added the differences
were not marked because If they were
the letters would be irreconcilable
which was not the case In his opinion.
Dissimilarity Admitted in
Tracing Of Letters.
Pope traced the "Fs." the "Ds," the
"Ys" and at the end of each tracing,
the attorney inquired:
@. Now these are dissimilar, are
they not?
A. There is a difference.
@. Why didn't you use the WORD
please" out Of the request writings
to compare with the word in the ran
some note?
A. I didn't think it necessary.
@. Wasn't it because it was differ
ent in the request writings.
A. I don't think so.
Pope brought out that the charac-
ters on the experts chart we're picked
for their similarity and that fire.
quently other forms of the same let
ter appearing in both writings were
passed over in the search for a
matching form.
He made much of this in his ques-
tions.
Dr. Souder. however. took occasion
crepancy which indicated a different
writer in all these documents"
Wilentz Objects to
Question About Junius.
G. Has there not been a controversy
over the authorship OF the letters OF
Junius for over $50 years?
To this question Wilentz objected.
1T is very remote" the attorney
general said.
"The doctor may answer as he sees
f1t." the court ruled.
II do not feel competent to answer
Oh the Junius documents" Souder
said.
Lanigan asked only two questions
on redirect
@. Did you consider both similari-
ties and diSsimi!arities in YOUR eX-
aminatiOnS?
A. Yes
@. Has anything been brought to
your attention BY opposing counsel
which in any way changes your opin-
ion on writer of these documents?
A. No.
Souder was then excused.
Albert d. Osborn
Next Expert on Stand.
Albert D. Osborn Of New York and
Montclair was the next handwriting
expert to take the stand.
He is the son of Albert 8. Osborn,
first of the battery of experts used by
the State to connect Hauptmann. with
the ransom notes.
Under questioning by Lanigan, Os-
born said he had testified lin Is
States and in many courts, criminal
and otherwise
@. Based upon your examination of
the genuine writing Of Hauptmann.
the request writing Of Hauptmann and
the ransom writings, have you reached
q conclusion?
A. have.
@. Are you prepared to state it?
A. am.
Q. Do 50.
A. In my judgment. based upon
these standards Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann wrote all the ransom notes.
Lanisan had him repeat his identifi-
cation Of Hauptmann by name as the