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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.