Show how MR cisco WAS DECEIVED aboin ills HIS OWN handwriting in ill tile the case ol of mr john W hunter charged with iorg forgeries eries upon the sub treasury the examination of which is now sing wow commissioner in tile the city of new york mr john J cisco C csc 0 has proved a swift witness ile he swore positively that the signatures which hunter declares are arc forgeries were gel genuine lume and lie he could not by the most skillful cross questioning be induced to abate a jot from this position ile he never had been and never intended to be deceived upon the subject of any handwriting with which he be was familiar if his personal and business friends thought he be was an innocent no centman man that was their business not his if a man should come for waid and swear that he perpetrated these forgeries the complacent and experienced cisco would not believe him why 7 had lie he not made up his mind that hunter had sacrificed his reputation destroyed his family and swindled the government for the pal try monetary consideration produced by these checks and in doing so had bad lie he cisco not acted quite independently of others ile he could not af foid to pity the delusion of those who thought that the signatures were forged but after liis his long experience ho he was not going 0 to doubt his own infallibility libi lity the custom house officials who proved their faith in the integrity of the accused man by becoming his buritica Buriti cs when lie was arrested simply cried in judgment he could not be guilty of such a grievous and unaccountable error for he was cisco tho the clear testimony of this gentleman man threatened to fix the crime and its penalty upon one whoso choso antecedents were quite as respectable as his own but the sagacity of one of the defendants lawyers mr pierrepont averted its accomplishment and wo we will venture to say rescued mr hunter from tile the peril in which he be had been placed through mr ciscoe zeal and self confidence dui during aig the examination on tuesday last mr quietly handed mr ir cisco a of paper on which there was a line written and said mr cisco is that your handwriting py unquestionably un qu es tion ably does docs it alter it any in your judgment that it is blunck a little thele 7 not atall at all it is unquestionably my band handwriting writing P the shrewd lawyer after this little episode induced the witness to reiterate in his s former statements and to swear positively that nobody could deceive him in a signature known to him when lie produced a climax that must have been startlingly r declaring that tile the signature that mr cisco asserted was his w was as written in the presence of five or six eminent bank bankers ors of this city by a gentl gentleman emall mr payne who was then in court that was an at effect worthy of it was W dramatic in the highest degree cc it the judge electrified tile the auditors leli relieved eved the pressing anxieties of hunter and staggered tho the overconfident over confident cisco it was a blow well conceived and well put and we repeat our belief that it has rescued hunter from a painful dilemma y N Y I 1 courier |