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- Title
PENCIL ERASURES--DETECTION AND DECIPHERMENT.
- Authors
Hilton, Ordway
- Abstract
The article focuses on the examination of suspected erasures of pencil writing to detect fraud in working records and informal documents. From time to time working records and informal documents are changed or altered, some in the course of preparation, some to commit fraud. If the papers form the basis of some phase of litigation or claims against another individual or corporation, the changes must be disclosed and evaluated. It is the document examiner's task to reveal these facts. In order to detect a pencil erasure, one must examine the document carefully and critically. Several techniques are available. The first step is visual examination under good lighting conditions. Diffused daylight is an ideal light, especially when its direction can be controlled. Erasures often can be detected more readily on a dull day. Bright sunlight or high intensity lighting may interfere with the detection of erasures rather than assist. While only crude erasures wear holes in the paper, other erasures tend to create thin spots. Consequently, every document suspected of having been erased should be examined with transmitted light. In almost every case, the document examiner is ultimately asked to determine what has been erased. Pencil writing cannot be restored in the sense that by some type of treatment the original writing can be brought back again on the surface of the paper.
- Subjects
LEGAL documents; FRAUD; WRITING; PENCILS; ERASERS
- Publication
Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology & Police Science, 1963, Vol 54, Issue 3, p381
- ISSN
0022-0205
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1141001