FORGED WRITINGS
OPINION OF AN EXPERT Giving evidence in the Supreme Court in Dunedin in.an acquittance ■•'pis case. Lieutenant R. J. G. Collins, •i handwriting expert, said that the handwriting of every person varied. No one person, lie said, ever wrote two words with absolutely and exactly the identical placing of the letters and the shape of the letters'. That statement also applied to a man’s signature. The witness said that there were three types of forgeries. They were the traced forgery (using a tracing paper on top of the writing!, the drawn forgery and the written- forgery. In the case of sucli a transfer agency as carbon paper, its use could be clearly seen by an ultraviolet lamp, and in other instances there was evidence of Pressure in tracing from one paper to the other. Tile witness explained the method of detection which lie adopted in cases of alleged forgery.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21150, 19 July 1943, Page 4
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151FORGED WRITINGS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21150, 19 July 1943, Page 4
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