Report 750809
carbon, pencil or
erasure on the document. Each of these
scientific instruments and such a
can be found by
use of
reproduction would also fail by incorrect use of pressure,
fluency, speed, direction used and personal habit. A
reproduction by transmitted light through a document fails because the fluency is disjointed, the speed of production
and pressure exerted in personal habit are incorrect, as the
direction
the writer using his own natural
direction when imitating. The pantograph method, in a
similar way to transmitted light, does not leave any marks
on the document but the reproduction fails in exactly the same way, although possibly less so in the direction used,
more so in speed, pressure and fluency.
be; may
It is not practical to reconstruct So much of another's
writing as is found
is found in the alleged suicide note using any
of these methods.
It
A further possibility of production by another person would
be by freehand imitation, copying known handwriting.
would be possible for another person to collect words or
characters in sufficient quantity to produce the structure of
a note such as the one in question. Assuming that the
person practised the design and formation of the letters
until sufficient expertise was gained, the concentration
would be on the design of movements, therefore the
production would fail in the speed, fluency, pressure
exerted, relativity of space and of one movement to another,
personal idiosyncrasies, relativity of size and possibly
areas such as the writing line and direction of movements
made.