Show EASE mrs hetty green was actor in howland will affair aff air charge of forgery was Made Fact that signatures signature were identically alike alleged to td have proved they were not genuine new York Did you ou ever hear bear the s tor tory y of sylvia ann rowlands will mrs mr hetty green queen of fleance fl nance nee was one or of the actors la in this first great will case in america the tory Is fifty years old but 41 it has dramatic interest beca because ise in certain features it Is anal analogous 0 gous to the case of 0 albert patrick recently pardo pardoned neu from sing slug sing by governor dix it was in the contest 0 the ilowe howland a nd cz CASO a that handwriting experts were first used to effect before an american court the tha next nest similar case was that of millionaire rices will in which pat rick appeared as claimant it Is worth noting that of the handwriting experts boom not toi to have llave advanced measurably in halt a century they have been refined perhaps but otherwise they have been altered very little even in their differences feren foren ces tho the experts of today resemble those of 1863 each Is still able to demonstrate that the thinking apparatus of all the other sides experts have been clogged by blue mud pat patrick ick owed his tour four times repent repeated d death sentence to the handwriting e experts I 1 P a arts th the a states stater case on hla his indictment for murder was technically weak it rested on the confession c of valet jones that he ha had chloroformed chloro formed rice at patricks orders but the tha indictment was dramatically strong because the experts proved conclusively that rices nices willehad will had been forged each of the four pages of this document bore a signature which was presumably a th that at 0 of rice nice the experts showed that these thesa four signa signatures turea were identical so admirably identical that when super superimposed lm each fitted the other to ape the thickness of an eyelash the experts conten contended ded that no two genuine signatures are ever just alike they even found the true signature from which the four false ones had been traced and f found that on the day rice was aappo aed to have signed the will he had signed five other documents the five genuine signatures differed widely from each other and from the four forced ones sylvia ann Flow howland land an aged spinster died in new bedford mass in 1863 leaving an estate of more than two wills were produced in the will of her niece and companion hetty cletty robenson afterward known as air hetty green was generously remembered by the will of 1860 hetty robinson inherited practically all it consisted of a single page marked second page inserted after the first page of an admittedly genuine genuina earlier will miss altos robinson fled that miss nowland howland had bad dictated this second pase page to her berg in duplicate both pages were in miss robinsons writing but each bore the signature of miss howland the bene fic larlee under the will of 1863 charged that the signatures on this duplicated second page had been forged by miss robinson every handwriting expert of noto note in the united states was engaged through experts miss robinson met the contentions of the defense point for point statement for r statement tat ement she la is supposed to have spent for counsel and experts that being by far the greatest surn sum ever expended tor for such employment in an american law suit up up to that time in the end a compromise was reached this compromise according to the law reporter la Is understood to be the withdrawal of the complainants complainant a appeal on payment of her expenses expense a costs and counsel fees tt etc the will of re malna enable the adil of sylvia ann how land |