CHAPTER XV

GUIDED HANDWRITING AND METHOD USED

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 Guided Hand--Difficulty in Writing--Force Exercised by Joint Hands--A Hand More or Less Passive--Work of the Controlling Hand--How Guided Writing Appears--Two Writers Acting in Opposition--Distorted Writing--How a Legitimate Guided Hand is Directed and Supported--Pen Motion Necessary to Produce Same--Influence in Guiding a Stronger Hand--Avoiding an Unnatural and Cramped Position--Effect of the Brain on Guided Hand--Separating Characteristics from Guided Joint Signature--Detecting Writing by a System of Measurement