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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 of Experience in Handling or Mishandling a Pen--Signature Most Difficult to Read--Simulation of Signa...
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...
31. Chapter 31No 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...
30. Chapter 30Professional Forgers and Their Methods--Using Engravers and Lithographers--Their Knowledge of Chemicals--Patching Perforated Paper--Difficult Matter to Detect Alterations and Fo...
28. Chapter 28What Erasure Means--The English Law--What a Fraudulent Alteration Means--Altered or Erased Parts Considered--Memoranda of Alterations Should Always Accompany Paper Changed--How...
43. Chapter 43Who 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...
34. Chapter 34Thumb-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...
42. Chapter 42A 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...
25. Chapter 25All Titles Depend Upon the Genuineness of Signatures--Comparing Genuine With Disputed Signatures--A Word About Fac-simile Signatures--Conditions Affecting Production of Signatur...
40. Chapter 40Telling 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...
27. Chapter 27Characteristics Appearing in Forged Signatures--Conclusions Reached by Careful Examinations--Signatures Written with Little Effort to Imitate--What a Clever Forger Can Do--Most...
38. Chapter 38Infallible 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...
47. Chapter 47Information 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...
33. Chapter 33Check-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...
32. Chapter 32Frequency of Litigation Arising Over Disputed Handwriting--Forged and Fictitious Claims Against the Estates of Deceased People--Forgery Certain to Be Detected When Subjected to...
41. Chapter 41Officials 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...
26. Chapter 26Forgeries 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...
48. Chapter 48Bankers 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--...
44. Chapter 44Sure 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,...
37. Chapter 37The 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...
35. Chapter 35Determining 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--...
36. Chapter 36A 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...
29. Chapter 29How 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...
39. Chapter 39The 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...
46. Chapter 46The 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...
24. Chapter 24Bankers 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--...
19. Chapter 19Who 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...
3. Chapter 3Characteristics Appearing in Forged Signatures--Conclusions Reached by Careful Examinations--Signatures Written with Little Effort to Imitate--What a Clever Forger Can Do--Most...
7. Chapter 7No 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...
2. Chapter 2Forgeries 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...
1. Chapter 1All 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...
20. Chapter 20Sure 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...
10. Chapter 10Thumb-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...
4. Chapter 4What Erasure Means--The English Law--What a Fraudulent Alteration Means--Altered or Erased Parts Considered--Memoranda of Alterations Should Always Accompany Paper Changed--How...
18. Chapter 18A 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...
14. Chapter 14Infallible 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...
8. Chapter 8Frequency of Litigation Arising over Disputed Handwriting--Forged and Fictitious Claims Against the Estates of Deceased People--Forgery Certain to Be Detected When Subjected to...
6. Chapter 6Professional Forgers and Their Methods--Using Engravers and Lithographers--Their Knowledge of Chemicals--Patching Perforated Paper--Difficult Matter to Detect Alterations and Fo...
15. Chapter 15The 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...
9. Chapter 9Check-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...
5. Chapter 5How 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...
13. Chapter 13The 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...
23. Chapter 23Information 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...
16. Chapter 16Telling 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,...
21. Chapter 21How 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...
11. Chapter 11Determining 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--...
17. Chapter 17Officials 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...
12. Chapter 12A 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...
22. Chapter 22The 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...