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Show oo THEODORE KnKI GETS HIS iOIY Theodore Kytka of San Francisco, tho handwriting expert who testified for the state in the Martin blackmailing black-mailing cases, through his attorney, Judge Hiram H. Henderson, late yesterday yes-terday agreed to accept ?2,59S.5G for his services ad tho county commissioners commis-sioners approved tho same as fair and reasonable. Mr. Kytka's original claim, including costs, amounted to nearly $3,000. The reductions weer agreed to through the co-operatlvve efforts of County Attorney Attor-ney Charles L. Farr, District Attorney Attor-ney Stuart P. Dobbs, the commissioners commission-ers and Attorney Henderson. They "split tho difference." Handwriting oxperts come high, 'twas remarked, their usual minimum charge being about $50 a day and expenses. Ono "high-rolling" expert In New York charges $100 a day flat. After close study of tho Kytka methods, meth-ods, which are Simply the microscopic comparison of photographic enlargements enlarge-ments of every detail of samples of handwriting, several county employes and officials aro now considered experts ex-perts on handwriting comparison. Kytka's work hero attested the fact that it Is almost impossible for any person to disguise completely one's handwriting. The characteristics of pen-stroke, formation of letters, dotting dot-ting of I's, crossing of T's, cuiiey-cues, cuiiey-cues, etc , are as unmistakable, they say, as thumb-prints, or toe-prints, under the Bcrtillon system. |