He said in his previous testimony that from a cursory exami the photograph of the which the police had the chief evidence against Pick, he was of the opinion that the signatures of "G. Cunningham" supposed to be that of E. S. Cunningham, US. Consul-General, and the signature of A. D. Blackburn, H.M. Consul, were "written by somebody frying to i Pick's writing. He believed the two signatures were rank forgeries and had been pains.
ingly drawn from an original signature in pencil then gone over in ink, and he asked for more time in which to examine them more thoroughly. He was given a photographic copy of the alleged licence when he caused a_ mild sensation by saying, "If Mr. Bryan bases his prosecution on that document I might brand it a rank forgery altogether, and I do not think Mr. Bryan could prove other-
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