"I'D HAVE BET ANYTHING ON HANGING THAT MAN."
[SOME INCRIMINATING DOCUMENTS.]
FACSIMILES OF FATAL WRITINGS.
Incrimination by handwriting, if not as old as crime itself, is at least, in all probability, as old as the art of writing. Whenever there exists a manual record of a misdeed, there is naturally always the risk of betrayal. In truth, there could be no safer motto for the criminal than the words of Napoleon to Fouché: "Certain people should never write; pen and ink are sure to undo them."
An illustrious example of incrimination by document has been recently furnished to the world by the Dreyfus case, with its subsequent complications, so that the present consideration of documents which have played an equally strong part in bringing evil-doers to justice cannot fail to be most interesting.
The public have, probably, not yet forgotten the unique circumstances of the Whalley will case.
FAMOUS FORGED WILL.