Editing Questioned document examination (section)

===Pre-1900===
* The [[Howland will forgery trial]] (1868)
* Although the crimes were committed before the discipline of document examination was firmly established, the letters of the [[Jack the ripper#Ripper letters|Jack the Ripper]] case have since been examined in great detail
* The [[Dreyfus Affair]] (1894), involving non-FDE [[Alphonse Bertillon]], although professional comparisons exonerating Dreyfus were ignored
* The [[James Reavis]] ([[Baron of Arizona]]) land swindle trial about forged documents involved in a Spanish barony and land grant (1895)
* The [[Adolf Beck case]]s (1896 and 1904) where handwriting expert Thomas H. Gurrin repeated an erroneous identification