Show mature Experts Interesting facts for bustness business men 8 S packard noted aa as a skillful pen mabe mate writes to the ne new york vail mau mah con cernin berning 11 signature experts the tho occasion bang being the late taylor will cae case which which turned in great meas measure on the genuineness of the teata testators tors signature iz more than twenty years yearb ago id in cincinnati I 1 copied the thel 0 independence appending yae fae sanfre of the ithe sign erst names mr thomas stevens Bt evens at that time editor of the tho gln gin cinnoti atlas took oc calon occasion in I 1 n a pleas pless pleasa i ant way to doubt my assertion that I 1 had bad copied the signatures witha with a pen to convince him I 1 asked him to sign his name on a sheel sheet of paper which he be did I 1 immediately wrote ten fen copied copies othis of his signature above and below the original and handed banded him the paper fo for him to be select elect lect his big own A after afier f ter a careful examination he selected one for his big own he was wrong he tried again and again with the same result and finally by mere guels guess work he hit the tight one and it was a remarkable fact that after he had really discover discovered ed his own be he could see the most astonish ing absurdities in all the other others ar bomb some bix six year years sago bago ago I 1 was speaking with a well known publisher of this city who sat eat at his desk signing some checks that his bookkeeper book keeper had prepared for him the signature was of the firm I 1 andaas and wab was a peculiar one as h he a wrote it I 1 casually remarked that that was an excellent signature for a h forger he promptly responded that there was no forger who could sin sign bin t hat that name so as to deceive decalve him hird oh yes there is said I 1 albere where is he he Is standing at your elbow iio ilo do you mean to say said he be 49 that I 1 you yon can imitate that Bigna signature so I 1 cannot detect the forgery 1 I mean to say st y ll 11 said I 1 that I 1 think 1 can do it and am willing to try it if you will write that signature he replied so bo I 1 cannot distinguish it from my own I 1 will there there don donahe abe rash I 1 should dislike to take taka vantage advantage of your present excitement if you will just write the Big sig signature nature ai at the top of thab that letter sheet well bee eee what a little impudence C aa do he did as requested I 1 look took the sheet and went to the bookkeepers book keepers desk mere here I 1 exchanged it for another of the same relative position I 1 imitated the signature in a very free careless way not attempting a servile copy but preserving we toe characteristic strokes I 1 then very carefully wrote und underneath erneE itil it three faithful imitations making four signatures Ig natures alln nil all my yown own these thebe I 1 took t to 0 the p proprietor rop rIctor and told him film to select h his I 1 a own signature with surprisingly little effort he pointed out the first signature and at once began to crit cise else with se verity severity my base imitations I 1 well ll 11 baid said 1 I tl 1 will confess they are not as well done as I 1 expected to do them or as ag I 1 could do them if my nerves were steady but really said y 1 I dont you think that if one of hese these signatures signatures were placed at the bottom bottoni of your jour ordinary check your bank would honor the check well no bald said he 1 I dont think it atwould would uan ua o T 0 t aw iw suppose B bald baid a adi d r I 1 there r is no doubt about the atop signature that would bring tild the cash 11 1 oh yes I 1 should like to see our bank refuse thau that signature for an ordinary sum I 1 then went to the bookkeepers book keepers desk luni iuni produced the original signature r how about this said 1 I he looked at the Big sig signature nature then at my base imitations then at the crowd of interested spectators who had quietly gathered around and who were beginning to tahe take in the tho richness of the joke and finally he bur burst stout out in an elpi expression which was a mixture of as asi ment chagrin merriment ve vexation xa and perplexity and holding out oui his hand with unconditional surrender written all over his face he exclaimed sold this was the only word in the american amerlean language that could adequately express the situation but the sell was a very easy one and reau required ired no skill at all the tee fact is that when the original signature was compared with thu the forgeries the discrepancies were so palpable that a nv wayfaring ay man though a fool need noi nol not be taken in and yet if my friend had not been a deacon which he was and ia and if I 1 had bednas been as most forgers I 1 could have won a very nice sum had I 1 offered to stake it on the issue finally to convince the deacon that he be was not the only onik fool in the firm 1 I called up one of the other othen partners and I 1 showing him the three false faise asked himi himl to decide which wab was t the alne wit with great show abow dareal dis cerement cern ment he fe elected the top one and began abonce at onee once to point out the weak pointe in the others simply gimpy by comparing ing with what he considered the genuine yes said he they are ate pretty fair imitations but dont you see pee the bength of thia this gand gaud g and the ebe tarn arn j 0 of f thlu taito n now look at 34 the original and und eee pee see where this capital sweep aro around wrid prid there is 19 an attempt at it in the tho imitations bu but t it isa is iss a very weak one i then you be im imposed josd upon apoi by one of these lower signatures said i i w so no not I 1 they aar vear pear for forgery gery upon udon their very face well how about the first one no M mistake histake about that you would readily cash baah a check with that signature I 1 oh yes that is ls is 19 all right anybody w who ho ever saw the deacons sign manual could tell that at a glauce glance 11 so the deacon deab divid divided i elud up his chagrin chagra U with the junior partner i er a and nd felt better or worse ive forgotten which the fact bisno is no man la Is safe in iii swear ing int in to his own signature not even horace greeley to his no man maw writes his hia signature twice alike although he may preserve tho the character and I 1 would give very little for the testimony of experts unless backed by pretty strong collateral evid dvid evidence enee ence it would not be difficult ordinarily to identify a nody of writing such as a page or oven even a dozen lines but to decide ciders as to the genuineness of a sing bing single dle word or signature is more than I 1 should like to do if either life or happiness depended upon it |