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Show LETTERS THAT WRECK LIVES Hov Peets of the Pen Are Tracked by Various Methods and Sometimes Some-times Caught. More anonymous letters are being written today than ever before. This Is the alarming verdict of a well-known handwriting and forgery expert. Seventy per cent of the writers go undiscovered, the remaining 30 per cent being traced by various methods, says London Tit-Bits. The Investigator ascertains, In the first place, whether the recipient of the letter suspects any particular person. per-son. If he does, the Inquiry naturally natural-ly Is confined to one direction, steps being taken to secure an example of the suspected person's handwriting. With this to guide him, the Investigator Investi-gator compares the handwriting in the example with that in the anonymous letter. Ho uses the microscope to enable him to detect minute similarities and differences, and the camera to record and enlarge these details. Usually the anonymous letter Is photographed and enlarged bodily, each Individual character In the enlargement en-largement being cut out afterward and pasted In a reference album. All the A's are pasted In one row, all the B's In another and so on. This makes the work of comparing the letters let-ters considerably easier. Frequently It happens that the writer of the anonymous letter Is given away by a trilling detail. An uncrossed "t" repeated three times in the same letter sufficed to convict one of these criminals, while joins In the middle of strokes have often led to , their downfall. |