OFFERED £800,000.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 72, 17 March 1914, Page 2

OFFERED £BOO,OOO.

REST OF WALLACE COLLECTION. LONDON, March 13. Mr Wilbener, o* New York, is no«o----tiatmg with Lady Sackvillo for the lemamcler of the Wallace collection for which ho has offered £BOO,OOO.

. Ten minutes after the judgo finished his summing up yesterday afternoon tho jury returned a verdict in favor of n ', a , l ! cl ., LiM, .v 'Sackvillo (stated 'Tlie Dai y Mail' of July 8). Thus terminated after eight days' hearing the celebrated litigation over the will of Sir John Murray Scott, which disposed of an estate in England, Ireland and trance, worth £'J 180,000. The special jury found that there had been no uninfluence exercised by Lord and -ady Sackvillo over Sir' John Scott and no fraud on the Dart of Lady Sackvillo, _ this verdict negativing the attempt of the Scott family to invalidate the bequests to. the Sackvillcs. The result confirms Lady Sackvillo in tho possession of tho beautiful art objects and historic articles, plate, furniture and pictures, of tho estimated value of £350,000 to £400,000. which Sir John Scott had chiefly in his two Paris resi-t-nn'f^ 1 " 1 a],so ?150,M0 iu cash. Thi« £ooo,ooo, or nothing, was the, vital issue of the case, for Lady Sackvillo.L}U '.y Saekville's inheritance under the will (stated the samo paper of Juno 26) is stated by counsel to comprise pictures, plate, furniture, and works of art worth not less than a bust by Hondon, valued at from £30,000 to £50,000; a m'eket-liook that belonged to Marie Antoinette; a diamond necklace that had Ixdonged to .Catherine of Navarre; and £150,000 in cash; while sho and her husband further received during Sir John Mur!ray Scott's life cheques totalling £84,000. On a largo part of these, legacies death duties in both France 1 and England will have to be paid, amounting to 40 per cent, of the value, and these are to come out of the residui ary estato and not to fall upon Lady Sackvillo.