Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 2, 1916, Page 25

Yy PART THREE EDITORIAL PAGES ONE T0 $1X HAT i the value ire of one of expert testimony fhe plet ¢ tostitying "o eourt in expe direct contradiction 10 another expert, but employed by the other side, 1e & tamiliar one, This 2T subjeet very interestingly dis cussed by a gronp of lawyers in a cory corner of the University club the day in with the “Blull case’”’—Abat absorbed terest in northern lilinoig a month or 8o ako which had more beenuse It revolved about one of Nebraska's well known and highly esteemed business men indicted i Iinols charged with uttering a forgery other connection publie in and than passing noties in Nebraska Here of the Jawyers 18 the story of the case asg related by one attended this and followed it closely, not as counsel, however, as for soversl years he has not been engaged in active practics, but rether as the intimate friend of the defendant William Stulp eame to Councll Bluffs in 1876 University of Tilinols, baving been A ( of the earliest and the who had trial fresh from the Burnham, ons ploneers in the moriknge head of the firm of Burnham & Tulleys, The five with sent there by Tarm business, ours of the young man's connsction this Inrgely in Towa and portions of Mis 1681 he removed to Lineoln coneern was spent traveling over eamt ern Nebrasks, western wouri and Ka sas, In nd with W. B, McKinley, now congressman from iino rganized the firm of McKinley & Btull Ihis co-partnership Aid an extensive farm loan ess 11 1656, when Willlam $tull and his brother Louls, now deceased, formed the firm of ull Bros., which has ever since nterruptedly ontinued business in spite of crop fallures, de or pnd panie he flfice wus moved from Lincoln 1o Omaha 47, Falling health hich time Willinm $tull has been the sole owner alntaining the en e reputation established ol »n wit the i rowey the pre Jiapatel ne ‘ | ent in 1N 0 aturally exp | r AUrprise bt of Indignition [ ere than fre ant when Mr, #t returned hom fow d owlng the ann ement he found a m of 1elegrams and ot foerying the T hieh hin friend re . ng perpe rated on wiidl toering path 1 | the 1K) ! - 1 Gint of the Stull Case L [} \L L o | L ' \ ) o A g | ) 1 \ ] f Ml 1 I \ ) )\ | [ . | a " | 'THE OMAHA "‘l\ll\ Sl > How Writing Experts Do Their Work tuke over the place, except the houss in which loel lived, and move hix family, that they mnight oth Jive on the old farm, making it & place of wautly and treating it rather as & plaything than pouree of revenps Duplicate Copies of Contract The decision as Lo adl this, the price Lo be Iste in No advised Willlam of Lis entire appioval of the plan, naming $100 per the farm. In keeping with this understanding, William had the bookkeeper office prepare duplicste conveyance of the farm to him; laft entirely 1o Joel year he pald, ete,, were “mber of the same nere us the price for his Omaha contracts providing for the Joel, however, 1o retain & Iife tenaney of his rest denco and horse barn, $500 was 1o be psid In cash, the balunce of the purchase price on Mareh 1, 1012, at which date possession Was 1o be given and the purchase price psid, Both of these con tracts were gigned by Willlam and sent to Josl, with the re Guest that 1he 1 Igned b Joel wnd ¥ wife who ; should retaln of the second pul' one copy and return the other to Wil lam @&t hi office n Omaha ™ was done, and The Disputed Signatures DAY fORNING AVRII 4 John F Tyrrell Hnm $tull had received the contract duly exccuted by Joel and his wife It oceurved 1o him that In cuns of his denth, sither bhefors uite the deed should be executed, there was » provision for fead, ote,, for Joel's stock; and that thers would be various things unprovided for indispensable to Keoper 1o the making of s resl therefors in originel In nddition might desire steucted his book nsert in the contract & provision giving bis brother the right for bis own use, 1o kesp such elock as he and that pasture hay and should be furnished gt iod g and ssking him to Insert the same In of the this Joul'n #rain, tesd, ap woll ay wood for fuel, to him, without charge, sending this elause bis duplieate contract, In W Iiam’s copy contraet w cloriesl error was made in doing | erasure that he chemies and after had filed his contraet, but necossitating death 1t brother's letter had not Aifferent was developed with his copy of the directed ypon this written in this clause us The construetion put erasure hy renl handwrit ing experts, and by fake experts, the wide difference in the ter of th Ilansen iustrates charac mL // Tl signat two The fukers waw In It ‘unmistaka ble frand,’ the real experts the return f ” wikh eyldence of one copy of the (he genuine J ok not The Indict M B (Genuine Accepted Stanc .1141 "" i books of Htull Hre here b had had I prepared ) U Cnr i por ¢ I I e I he first duy of { and March Willin i/ TRUSTE b th R—N | the: 1 f the balas d ) nd al date every penny of Interest » and § K possession of f horeon, and Wit P o f hin hrothe weded | | o e 1 A ) No Motive for Any Fraud l phaR e ) f ’ fon deat | ts &nd (Pustens aseiils dosd \ 1ol 10 ) ) | " ) ! ] i ¢ hars Ll ' "o . the heire PN T aard 1a Iy UNDAY B 1916 an that of an abstractor, and an entire stranger to Joel $tull during his 1ife and to the widow prosumably and sean their pignatires, the will Of thewe thres, who had never Identif record ealled to and oth dociments filed for crecy who In the se und whelter of the grand jury room gave If wumtained, would have brought a penitentinry sentonce to William #tull, the widow tentified that she did not sign the contract {n ques tion, but bad signed another contract, u duplieats, with the exception thut the deed was to be mada Lo testimony that Willlam #tull, jr., Instead of senlor Dy, Curtiss who was three times upon the stand, avolded tomiifying that either signature was a forgery, wimply testifying that he had seen a contract to Willlam Stull's name was signed corre 1o the alleged fotgery in every which sponding renpect excopt that the deed wan to go to Willlam Stull, Jr. Mra. Curtiss, the third withess, was not called at wll, , Bo that the state’s only testimony, except that of the widow, wag that of the alleged exporis In the employ of the siats, Two Bets of Writing Experts held ana expressed by widow Ihe view many who the trisl rad pade the vietim of cunning sugkestion or hypno having been first shown whet was nothing cortified copy of the original con properly denying that the signa had been made by her contract, It nitended was that the heen trm more than a and to this certified copy the original tinet, very ture Later, when shown wah her signature to to deny ] but a short step for her the original The state produced two alle handwriting crperts, one clalming to be alwo u doctor of medi clue, u professor of law, & microscopist, and many other things, Theother was n practicing luwyer of Chicago, who claimed to have acquired expert overal years kfowledge on handwriting during the ho worked us n paying teller for a Chicago trust compan Phese men hoth unhesitatingly pro nounced e ignatures of both Josl Bl and — Amelin Hiull farkerie aying the reached thi oneluslon after o welentifie o tigation, wreful comparisor with o number of ad it Led UL f both Joel $tull and Amelia $tu On Crowm-oxi pra he only wuthentic standurd the | nuine f Joel Wtull and Amelis | he | 8 neconsit \ e [ t ' \ e § " I f 1 oalt " T e ¥ ¥ phing here, he had | saned Jie I8 1l & A% BOLARY | ' ail torrod | \ tHon, 1 \ \ 1, the henetit o than spondnd by Witliam Ml tn resusetinting LART THREE, MAGAZINE PAGES ONE T0 SIX, N1 \hll COPY 1IVE CENTS with the gemeral advance 1016, would chiefly ae wite, There together the ‘old farm hetween 1911 and to the benefit of Curtiss’ alwo wome elghty checks drawn on William Btull’s In lands erie were Lank mecount and signed, ‘William Stull, per Joel #ull, for Jabor and material used in fmproving the furm, Including the shingling of the house in which Joel Stull himsslf Hved at the time, This mass of signatures way submitted to the thres viont prominent and undoubtedly the best equipped and most reliable hendwriting experts in the Pnited Stutes - W, J. Kinsley, Albert 8, Osborn end John ¥, Tyrrell. Al thres, after examing tions made by ench Independently of the others, unhesitatingly pronounced the disputed signatures genulne, The methods, the mechanieal equipment, the selentific knowledgo und the wide experience used as deseribed by them on the witness stand I8 but to the # rovelation not only to the laymen, nvernge lawyer an well W J Kinsley Is of pecullar interest to Nebraskans, us his career us & penman commenced as a teacher In s small business from which he went to the nor mal then to a Jargs business college at Voughkeepsie and lluufly 1o Now York City, twenty years he has undivided time to the exmnination of disputed documents testifying in state and fedornl courts an an expert, Heo said he bad ex- 4,000 specimeny of disguised and dis 1,600 canen, in twenty-nine college at Lincoln, school at Bhenandosh, Ia,, where for klven his and nmined over puted handwritings, in wintes of the United Btates and Canada, and also made an examination of the facsimile handwrit- ings In the colabrated Dreyfus case, Ho s cons handwriting expert in the York, the Conn., and tantly employed as a district attorney of New offies of dintrict Philadelphia, offiees of the attorney Bridgoport, attorneys In New Among has testls Iieo by the United States Vork, Brooklyn T'renton, ete the muny colebrated eawes in which he fled may be cited thé ‘Molinenux’ case, the i the case brought by Mae Wood, for nier Omaha, agalost Benator Platt; the ‘Davis I came of Ban Franciseo, and the ‘Clark will ’ Mr, Kinsley's death in New York f mentioned as ‘the Quea rity on hin book dard auth [ o lawyer and law 0 the world ! it Fo sny sibject al, what Ia o And as . f the nation of ho various | winard Aw 10 oApertE on (L had testified sndweiting e oane W'y hand i he prasesution, woman wham writing an that of & Mx)