Detective-Inspector Dickson added that he had had 12 years experience of examining handwriting and figures and he had read and studied many books on handwriting. He had also seen 30 to 40 examples of a figure seven, collected by the leading handwriting expert in America, but none of these examples resembled the seven on the photographs.
After the erasure in the ledger there appeared the figures five and one and these appeared to have been over written. The figure 684.09, he said, was in pencil and appeared to have been written by the same per-
Marseilles, July 20.
Father P. Lejay, Doctor of Science and General Director of the Zikawei ask Observatory in Shanghai, arrived here this evening in the Messageries Maritimes liner, Athos LI.
Father Lejay, one of the most brilliant of the world's astronomers, is going to Paris for a short stay before be leaves at the end of August with the French delegation for the Geophysics September 4 Congress in Washington.
At this Congress, he is to present a series of papers on his findings in the feld of gravity in the Philippines, on his discovery of a new instrument to measure the levellings of axes of astronomical instruments and on his researches and -|soundings in the ionosphere which are expected to contribute towards the science of eradicating echo in radio.—Havas.
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