Disputed Handwriting An exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day. With illustrations and expositions for the detection and study of forgery by handwriting of all kinds

How Professional Forgers Work--Valuable Points for Bankers and Business Men--Personnel of a Professional Forgery Gang--The Scratcher, Layer-down, Presenter and Middleman--How Ba...

No Law Regulating Experience and Skill Necessary to Constitute An Expert--Experts Held Competent to Testify in Court--Bank Officials and Employes Favored--An Expert On Signature...

Professional Forgers and Their Methods--Using Engravers and Lithographers--Their Knowledge of Chemicals--Patching Perforated Paper--Difficult Matter to Detect Alterations and Fo...

What Erasure Means--The English Law--What a Fraudulent Alteration Means--Altered or Erased Parts Considered--Memoranda of Alterations Should Always Accompany Paper Changed--How...

Who May Testify As An Expert--Bank Officials and Bank Employees Always Desired--Definition of Expert and Opinion Evidence--Both Witness and Advocate--Witness in Cross Examinatio...

Thumb-Print Method of Identification Absolute--Now Brought to a High State of Perfection--Will Eventually Be Used in All Banks--Certified Checks and Also Drafts with Thumb-Print...

A Man's Handwriting a Part of Himself--Cheap Postage and Typewriters Playing Havoc with Writing by Hand--Old Time Correspondence Vanishing--Two Divisions of Handwriting--Fashion...

All Titles Depend Upon the Genuineness of Signatures--Comparing Genuine With Disputed Signatures--A Word About Fac-simile Signatures--Conditions Affecting Production of Signatur...

Telling the Nationality, Sex and Age of Anyone Who Executes Handwriting--Americans and Their Style of Writing--How English, German, and French Write--Gobert the French Expert an...

Characteristics Appearing in Forged Signatures--Conclusions Reached by Careful Examinations--Signatures Written with Little Effort to Imitate--What a Clever Forger Can Do--Most...

Infallible Rules for the Detection of Same--New Methods of Research--Changing Wills and Books of Accounts--Judgment of the Naked Eye--Using a Microscope or Magnifying Glass--Cha...

Information for Those Who Handle Commercial and Legal Documents--Peculiarity of Handwriting--Methods Employed in Forgery--Means Employed for Erasing Writing--Care to be Used in...

Check-Raising Always a Danger--A Scheme Almost Impossible to Prevent--The American Bankers' Association the Greatest Foe to Forgers--It Follows Them Relentlessly and Successfull...

Frequency of Litigation Arising Over Disputed Handwriting--Forged and Fictitious Claims Against the Estates of Deceased People--Forgery Certain to Be Detected When Subjected to...

Officials of This Department Talk About Their Work--How Criminals Are Traced, Caught and Punished--Its Work Extending to All Departments--Secret Service Districts--Reports Made...

Forgeries Perpetrated by the Aid of Tracing a Common and Dangerous Method--Using Transparent Tracing Paper--How the Movements are Directed--Formal, Broken and Nervous Lines--Ret...

Bankers Easily Deceived--How Ten One Hundred-Dollar Bills Are Made out of Nine--How to Detect Altered Bank Notes--Making a Ten-Dollar Bill out of a Five--A Ten Raised to Fifty--...

Sure Rules for the Detection of Forged and Fraudulent Writing of Any Kind--A European Professor Gives Rules for Detecting Fraud--How to Tell Alterations Made on Checks, Drafts,...

The Different Kinds of Ink Met With--Inks That Darken by Exposure to Sunlight and Air--Introduction of Aniline Colors to Determine the Age of Writings--An Almost Infallible Rule...

Determining Questionable Signatures By the Aid of a Microscope--A Magnifying Glass Not Powerful Enough--Character of Ink Easily Told--The Microscope and a Knowledge of Its Use--...

A New Departure in Banks--Examining All Signatures a Sure Preventive Against Forgery--The "Filling-in" Process--How One Forger Operated--Marvelous Accuracy of a Paying Teller--H...

How a Paying Teller Determines the Amount of a Check--Written Amount and Amount in Figures Conflict--Depositor Protected by Paying Teller--Chief Concern of Drawer of a Check--Tr...

The Most Frequent and Dangerous Method of Forgery--How to Detect a Guided Signature--What Guided Handwriting Is and How It Is Done--Character of Such Writing--Writing by a Guide...

The Morey-Garfield Letter--Attempt to Defeat Mr. Garfield for the Presidency--A Clumsy Forgery--Both Letters Reproduced--Evidences of Forgery Pointed Out--The Work of an Illiter...

Bankers Easily Deceived--How Ten One Hundred Dollar Bills Are Made out of Nine--How to Detect Altered Bank Notes--Making a Ten-Dollar Bill out of a Five--A Ten Raised to Fifty--...

Who May Testify As An Expert--Bank Officials and Bank Employes Always Desired--Definition of Expert and Opinion Evidence--Both Witness and Advocate--Witness in Cross Examination...

Characteristics Appearing in Forged Signatures--Conclusions Reached by Careful Examinations--Signatures Written with Little Effort to Imitate--What a Clever Forger Can Do--Most...

No Law Regulating Experience and Skill Necessary to Constitute an Expert--Expert Held Competent to Testify in Court--Bank Officials and Employees Favored--An Expert On Signature...

Forgeries Perpetrated by the Aid of Tracing a Common and Dangerous Method--Using Transparent Tracing Paper--How the Movements are Directed--Formal, Broken and Nervous Lines--Ret...

All Titles Depend Upon the Genuineness of Signatures--Comparing Genuine with Disputed Signatures--A Word about Fac-simile Signatures--Process of Evolving a Signature--Evidence o...

Sure Rules for the Detection of Forged and Fraudulent Writing of Any Kind--European Professor Gives Rules for Detecting Fraud--How to Tell Alterations Made on Checks, Drafts, an...

Thumb-Print Method of Identification Absolute--Now Brought to a High State of Perfection--Will Eventually Be Used in all Banks--Certified Checks and Also Drafts with Thumb-Print...

What Erasure Means--The English Law--What a Fraudulent Alteration Means--Altered or Erased Parts Considered--Memoranda of Alterations Should Always Accompany Paper Changed--How...

A Man's Handwriting a Part of Himself--Handwriting and Personality--Cheap Postage and Typewriters Playing Havoc with Writing by Hand--Old Time Correspondence Vanishing--Two Divi...

Infallible Rules for the Detection of Same--New Methods of Research--Changing Wills and Books of Accounts--Judgment of the Naked Eye--Using a Microscope or Magnifying Glass--Cha...

Frequency of Litigation Arising over Disputed Handwriting--Forged and Fictitious Claims Against the Estates of Deceased People--Forgery Certain to Be Detected When Subjected to...

Professional Forgers and Their Methods--Using Engravers and Lithographers--Their Knowledge of Chemicals--Patching Perforated Paper--Difficult Matter to Detect Alterations and Fo...

The Most Frequent and Dangerous Method of Forgery--How to Detect a Guided Signature--What Guided Handwriting Is and How It Is Done--Character of Such Writing--Writing by a Guide...

Check-Raising Always a Danger--A Scheme Almost Impossible to Prevent--The American Banker's Association the Greatest Foe to Forgers--It Follows Them Relentlessly and Successfull...

How a Paying Teller Determines the Amount of a Check--Written Amount and Amount in Figures Conflict--Depositor Protected by Paying Teller--Chief Concern of Drawer of a Check--Tr...

The Different Kinds of Ink Met With--Inks That Darken by Exposure to Sunlight and Air--Introduction of Aniline Colors to Determine the Age of Writings--An Almost Infallible Rule...

Information for Those Who Handle Commercial and Legal Documents--Peculiarity of Handwriting--Methods Employed in Forgery--Means Employed for Erasing Writing--Care to Be Used in...

Telling the Nationality, Sex and Age of Anyone Who Executes Handwriting--Americans and Their Style of Writing--How English, German, and French Write--Gobert, the French Expert,...

How Professional Forgers Work--Valuable Points for Bankers and Business Men--Personnel of a Professional Forgery Gang--The Scratcher, Layer-down, Presenter and Middleman--How Ba...

Determining Questionable Signatures By the Aid of a Microscope--A Magnifying Glass Not Powerful Enough--Character of Ink Easily Told--The Microscope and a Knowledge of Its Use--...

Officials of This Department Talk About Their Work--How Criminals Are Traced, Caught and Punished--Its Work Extending to All Departments--Secret Service Districts--Reports Made...

A New Departure in Banks--Examining All Signatures a Sure Preventive Against Forgery--The "Filling in" Process--How One Forger Operated--Marvelous Accuracy of a Paying Teller--H...

The Morey-Garfield Letter--Attempt to Defeat Mr. Garfield for the Presidency--A Clumsy Forgery--Both Letters Reproduced--Evidences of Forgery Pointed Out--The Work of an Illiter...