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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 106, 6 May 1929, Page 8

Detecting Handwriting A slander <■:.«■. h.:, r ,| :1 : th.--irate s I'oiir;, VVeHingtim. reecn;?.-, by .Mi .1. S. Barton. 5.. M.. turned ,i„.„ a question of handwriting; and ,'-vi-i-n.-e was given l.v Mr 11. I'. M....1-»“t. »“t. as a handwriting expert, to the effect that the writing in two anony-lu-U, letters, though they wen- „i,. written »n a disguised hand wa- m * rcs T ects very similar to tha*. of Mag ■ that it w; « ftlnio.-: a legal axiom that the cvi be a eepiel with caution, and he a - rppied that view and was always verr in such cases. Up was both judge and jury in the case, and, ajury, with regard to the r atter of fa he was <ati-’ >d ti nt :i;.* handwritg expert was right. ll.> did not th'-.k that if any jury cf twelve honest men ••nrcful’y gave their mind.: io the question whether the defendant wrote those anonymous letters tbev could give anv other answer than th” answer L. gave. “Yes.” The word “Emma” was written with an ertraordinarv ea»- ta 1 “E.” He had never seen such an “E” before, exrep: in these let’ Again there was a peculiar “f.” with the loop running up the left side instead of the right ride of the duvvt - stroke, and such an <‘f” oceum d three times hi the short anonvm’*i:? letters and twenty-three times in the long letter admittedly written by the defendant; while the phrase “Truth will out” seemed to Bp a favourite one of hers. Apart, too. from a capital “H.” anybody would say that the letters were written by ?1k samp hand. He was led against l.:s first incl:nntion. and believed the defendant w <-te the letters. The evidence satisfied him beyond any reasonable doubt.

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