Show CLEVER FORGERIES that is what the tile mann hann scripts script sarc arc pronounced to be by learned Ife hebraic brale scholars CHICAGO aug 26 A cable special from london says tb the e manuscripts are pronounced b by if clermont gonneau to be fraudulent fraudulent this decision by so eminent an authority has produced a sensation and has caused all sorts of critical comments 31 is a jew and has hits made himself celebrated among european archaeologists by his industry and success in the discovery of ancient biblical authorities ho he it was who furnished to the german sa ten years ago ago tho the famous if potteries which M have hayball all along been accepted as genuine and have been pointed to by the most learned as the clearest and most authentic existing known evidences of the genuineness uin uhic eness ness of athe tho accepted texts of the old testament Sometime some time ago presented to the government some fifteen slips of an an chent looking sheepskin manuscript containing hebraic characters which he lie claimed were letters of the text or portions of the book of aud probably the oldest text of that part of the bible in existence as they dated about years before christ and nearly 1 years before the oldest accepted manuscripts cf of deuteronomy known claimed to have discovered the sheep sheepskins shee skins in the arabian desert and to have purchased them from a distinguished nomad who carried them next to his person ranging hanging from his neck as a charm the arabs story was that the akins skins were an heirloom which had bad descended in his family through h 11 generations erat crat ions immemorial and f had d inscribed upon them a divine secret of which his family was chosen to be ie the custodian until tho the arrival of the ho time for its proper revelation asked for the manuscripts they were accepted by athe th e government for examination and aud b being eing shown to many of the experts of the british museum were pronounced at first glance to be ie genuine mr gladstone ti then commissioned dr ginberg a pro bund found hebraist to make an all examination of them and report the result of f his labor to the government in mhd skins is contained ho the full text of kae the tile scholars had no difficulty in trans lating them the text is wib bially the same as that adopted by the christian gourch but diners differs C considerably in the wording of some of the commandments ference in phraseology is bartic particularly U great in in the sixth and ud seventh commandments the former reads in the blia pira documents as fol iowa lowe 1 I am god thy god thou not kill tho the person af thy brother tile seventh commandment reads 1 I am thy god thou not commit adultery with the wife of thy brother dr ginsberg at once went at his task and at the same time ho lie invited the attention of all the recognized archaeologists in ill europe to the and kept them accessible among those who accepted this invitation and who made a cloae close study of the leather straps have been mr bond chief librarian of the british INfuse museum urr i aldis wright of cambridge mr van straten of the hebrew department of tha the british museum and ernest burge of the assyrian department of the british museum I 1 dr harning of the manuscript department of the british Mus Ilu iuni seum and at clermont gan neau Allbut all but the latter ft ere favorably impressed by v tho the strips and gave to the public many strong reasons for believing that had bad made a discovery of the first importance M clermont gagneau Gan neau however was skeptical from the first he had devoted all the time he lie had bad been able to work in making a thorough investigation not only only 1 of the manuscripts but of shap Sha piras birss history for the last twelve years ho lie had made public the results of all this labor andee unhesitatingly pronounced a fraud gan neau goes at great length into d details c of what he terms Sha Shap iraa adventures and speculations in archa and asserts that ho he can prove and will prove that there aro are tho flit j strongest grounds for believing that the Hoal lite potteries and stones which induced G germany e td to believe in purchase and exhibit to the world as us proofs of the lie correct ue ness s 0 of f the accepted of huly holy writ are fraudulent le hase fabrications fAbrica tiona of a man who has a it perfect genius for this kind of work N ork dr ginsberg hag has finished translating the manasc manuscripts repts ail and is is now engaged in preparation of his report to the government this great pundit fully with ich gan neau as to the character of the sheepskins sheep skins this report will unqualifiedly pronounce the documents forge forgeries rici and anti will go into detailed proof that the tile leather ia is modern 10 deril and that he be ink is leas im than ten tell years old will make a fuss and will have a host of followers buethe but the government will cast him off in discredit the production of lc rai SS the manuscripts m caused a genuine sensation among biblical scholars a majority mijo rity of whom welcomed the alleged discovery and will reluctantly withdraw their faith from it alie portion of Sha piras manuscripts i apts shown consists of st strips rips of f leather Icat lier ono one about fourteen inches long and each nearly four inches broad the material is apparently goatskin goat alcin smeared with oil for the purpose of preservation the edges are jagged and the face of the leather very brown or even black on the larger piece no characters is to the ordinary oyo eye at all legible the characters on the small strip arc are quite plain in pa parts arts resembling rows ot small as and as similar to tho characters found upon the famous stone about forty such pieces of leather constituted the fragments frag menta which valued at X |