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Show LETTERS IN MARTI CASE ARE READ 1 COURT The trial of the Martin robbery C?e aa resumed In Judge J. A. Howell How-ell a division of the district court this morning, at 9:30 o'clock, with Albert S. Osborne, the expert on handwriting, handwrit-ing, on the witness stand, Judge John G. Willis first going into an oxtonded cross examination of the witness as to his qualifications. Mr. Osborne stated that he had been employed in the case at a salary of $50 a day and expenses as an ox-pert ox-pert witness, after he had examined standard and disputed documents in the case, and that his employment depended de-pended on his version of the handwritings. hand-writings. He explained that he told those who had the prosecution of the case in hand that he would be able to testify that tho person who wrote the standard letters also wrote the disputed letters. The witness frankly stated that he had testified in cases where convicions were not had, and also that his employment depended on the character of testimony he would give. f District Attorney B. O. Leatherwood began his examination of the expert by asking him, whether he had examined ex-amined the disDntod and ntjmdoYfl document, to which question the expert ex-pert stated that he had. Mr. OBborne then continued to say that his conclusion conclu-sion was that the two classes of documents docu-ments were written by the same person, per-son, and that they were in the same handwriting. At this juncture, the attorney offered of-fered in evidence a series of black-mall black-mall letters, designated as disputed documents. They were objected to by Attorney Willis on the grounds that they were Incompetent and immaterial im-material as evidence in the case. Blackmail Letters. The letters covered a time from October 30, 1911, to November 7, 1913, and were addressed to various prominent citizens of Ogden, each of them tending toward the extortion of money. They were all anonymous and were signed in the name of the late "James Pender, chief detective of the police department;" "The Tall and Short Man," and "The Man Much Wanted by the Police Department but Can't Be Found." The letter of October 30, 1911, was addressed to Mrs. McLaren Boyle, now Mrs. Elizabeth Wallln, in which tho writer directed her to meet him the following night on Twelfth, street in the vicinity of the Marriott school house and exchange $100 for a dla mond ring he had robbed her of and she was Instructed to travel over the road in tho day time that she might learn it well enough to travel it by night ' The writer told Mrs. Boyle that any treachery on her part would be disastrous to her and her family, also Instructing her not to divulge the business to the police. Letter to Culvers. A letter dated December 30, 1911, to George W. Culver advised him that tho writer was sorry his wife was Injured when her rings were stolen, the man explaining that it could not be helped as he "had a hard headed Dutch woman to deal with, and had to be harsh with her." He told Mr. Culver that he would return his wife's diamonds for a consideration of $300 in cash and that tho money should be turned over to Ms. Boyle, with whom he would leave the jewelry. Mr. Culver's Cul-ver's attention was called to the transaction with Mrs. Boyle in which she was given back her ring, and said that the same treatment would be given the Culvers, if they "came through" all right To advise the writer as to whether Mr. Culver would accept the offer an advertisement was to appear In the Evening Standard signed by G. W. Brown. Mr. Culver Tvas also told that the police department depart-ment was 'to be kept in Ignorance of the proposed deal and that. "If you want to lose your property turn over the affair to Detective James Pender. The writer also advised Mr. Culver to compare the writing of the letter to him with that in the letter written to Mrs. Boyle to convince him of the authorship. No Flowers and Slow Music. The next letter read waB one directed di-rected to Mrs. Boyle, December 25, 1911, telling her that the author had-arranged had-arranged to havo the Culvers bring $300 to her, which sho would be ex-Jeceed ex-Jeceed to turn over to him for the PnU-pr lewelrv taken from them some Sme tSS. He admonished Mrs. Boyle to act fairly with him as he did not care to do her violence, de-clariSg de-clariSg hedld not "want flowers and sloW mus?o in this affair" He was to arranee to meet her the following Wednesday night, if it did not snow Should it snow at that time, the writer writ-er explained, a later date would be arranged for. . Another letter was addressed to Mrs. Boyle, dated December J!9, 1911. telling her that he was surprised toat she could not attend to JZf business and that she had made a mistake by not doing it He insisted Sat she meet him Saturday night, between be-tween 10:30 and 11:30 o'clock, the pTace to be designated at another Sme He told her that he would have a commanding position and that if she brought any of the "crs J ether persons to entrap him, they would get the worst of it and that sho mluhbseeqeuentTy the Culvers received another letter, telling themthat the writer had received word from Mrs Boyle's daughter, informing him that w mother was too ill to do his Wd-dlnc Wd-dlnc He adXd Mr. Culver that ho would deal directly with him and that Z ? could get his jewelry back for S300 $ he accepted the proposition. 2 , n Dlace an advertisement in h f iSnSi slcned James Brown. 5?J to ono information to tho police department J Letter to Mrs, Dee. j Tho letter to Mrs. Thomas Dee was written in tho early part of March, 1913. which required that she and Mrs. r. B Bristol send him $500 each, to I a point to bo designated, tho delivery I to be made not later than April 15, J Ho told Mrs. Dee to confer with Mrs. Bristol and for them to call on fl Mrs. Culver and Mrs. Boyle to find H out the kind of man with whom they were dealing. i On September 15, 1913, Mrs. Bertha i M. Eccles rtjcetved a letter from thejlj blackmailer in which, she was told to donate $1000. She was threatened with violence if she did not comply with his request, and Instructed not to send out -any detectives, as was done on Canyon road the preceding AprIL Ho also advised Mrs. Eccles that she had better see the Culvers and Mrs. Boyle to learn something of him. L. R. Eccles Gets a Letter. The letter received by L. R, Eccles bore date of November 7, 1913, and he was told that he and R. E. Bristol were to furnish $1500 at a time and place to be designated. He informed Mr. Eccles that he must arrange to meet him in the near future and turn over the money. This transaction led to Martin's arrest ar-rest in the early part of December, 1913, charged with shooting Detective David Edwards who was dispatched to a lonely spot on West Seventeenth street, on the morning of November 9, 1913. Edwards had a pitched battle bat-tle with the man who had demanded money from Eccles and Bristol and was badly injured from gunshot wounds inflicted by the desperadoes. Afternoon Session. At the afternoon session, the expert ex-pert witness was recalled to the stand and he proceeded to Illustrate by drawings on sheets of paper the manner man-ner of writing employed In the disputed dis-puted and standard writlngB. He followed fol-lowed pretty much the same course as did Theodore Kytka, the handwriting handwrit-ing expert of San Franciscbv in the Martin case of a little more than a year ago, except that his photographic illustration was not enlarged to the same extent and he does not use great' saasE ( BBB large frames in which to display them. (J liftl Mr. Osborne stated that the multi- 1 Bk-l pllclty of the writings made it pos- HH slble for him to make a more careful If I 1 M examination and arrive at more def- It IkI lnite conclusions than in many other It iK&fl cases he had handled. He said that It H 19 practically every angle -for examlna- r nP tlon could be found In the Martin ex- 8 nlfl hlblts, both in the disputed and stand- !' ard, documents. To illustrate how he E )U arrived at his conclusion that the f ilfl writings were all in the same hand, llfl the expert wrote various letters of the ll-l alphabet on paper in large black pen- ImI ell marks and then explained the likes t BffV and dislikes of the documents. If nfl Characteristics Shown. Httl The witness explained that the writ- 111 ings are closely connected by numer- If Hbfl ous characteristics even though he l hH had discovered what he believes to 1 Ift-I have been attempted disguises, both jlj, !' in the standard and disputed docu- 111 IEH ments. The general forms, he stated, !BI are almost Identical and the lettera 111 Bl were the same in point of quality, Hjj band and arm movement, speed, Bpac- lit HI lng, shading and combination of let ll IH ters. Ho concluded that the Blmilar- l H ity and individual form could, not very iH well be accidental. ji'M !n ! |
