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(Testimony of Alwyn Cole)
Mr. Cole.
One distinctive feature there is the simplified method of. making the of the letter "r." Where the copybook or conventional form would show first a point at the top of the "r" and then the production of a rounded shoulder, this omits the point form and develops immediately into a rapidly sloping or curving down stroke.
Mr. Eisenberg.
Will you illustrate the copybook form on your chart paper, Mr. Cole?
Mr. Cole.
The conventional or copybook form of this "r" would be approximately in this manner: Cusp at the top, broad shoulder on the right side.
Mr. Eisenberg.
May I have that admitted as 787, Mr. Chairman, the copybook form of the "r"?
Representative Ford.
It may be admitted.
(Commission Exhibit No. 787 was marked and received, in evidence.)
Mr. Cole.
The letter "m" in "mail" in 785, with respect to the unusually broad spread of the arches of that letter, corresponds with the letter "m" on chart B, item 6, top line, in the word "me," where we have a similar spreading of the width of the arches of the "m."
The capital "K" in the word "Klein's" on 785 compares favorably with "K's" in the standard writing, chart A, items 13 and 14.
Again, this word "Klein's" demonstrates a habit on 785 of a somewhat greater forehand slant for the letter "i," that is, as contrasted with the slant observed for the letter "e," and it also shows this tendency to flatten out or run the letter "s" along the writing lines, rather than giving it a more vertical position, and this has already been observed in the standard writing. The entire word "Dept," that is, the abbreviation "Dept," on 785, compares favorably with that word as shown on chart B, item 2, that is the same abbreviation, "Dept.."
I will mention specifically two details of the letter "p." One is that it lacks an upper extension, which is a part shown in most copybook forms. In other words, there is no part of the staff---which, of course, is connected to the lower extension--which extends above the body of that letter, and that is true both as between the questioned "p" on 785 and that shown on chart B, item 2, in the abbreviation of "Dept." Another feature is the failure to bring the body in to a point where it touches the staff, and this is a frequent feature in the "p's" in the standard writing. Now, on chart B, not only in the abbreviation of the word "Dept." in item 2, but moving down to consideration of item 3 and the word "receipt," we observe a similar effect in the letter "p."
In the letter "t," a distinctive feature is the abruptness of ending that letter just before it reaches the writing line, which would differ from other letters, which touch the writing line, and many of which have a rising terminal stroke. In the questioned writing on 785 in "t" of "Dept," and also in the "t" in the abbreviation of "street" in the line below, we have just such a thing in the letter "t" which is shown from time to time in the standard writing---one example being chart A, item 13 in the abbreviation of "street." We have the same effect on chart A, item 8, in the word "it."
In the word "Washington" on 785, one distinctive feature is the curved staff of the letter "g." In other words, there is a continuous curve from the apex of the "g" down to the bottom of the lower extension, and this method of treating a "g" is repeated in the standard writing, one example being chart A, item 2, in the word "obligations."
Mr. Eisenberg.
Would that also be true in chart B, item 10, in the word "Washington"?
Mr. Cole.
Yes, sir; a very good example of it.
Mr. Eisenberg.
Mr. Cole, that item B-10 is spelled differently from the standard, from the questioned document, rather. Does that--what is your opinion as to that variation in spelling?
Mr. Cole.
There are a number of misspellings in the standard writings, and sometimes in the standard you will find words repeated in a correct spelling and at other times with an incorrect spelling. In other words, there is a variation in that respect. I think it comes partly from carelessness, not essentially from lack of knowledge of how to spell the word.
Representative Ford.
These variations would be in the same letter or the same document?
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