SCOTT WILL CASE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144134, 2 July 1913, Page 3

SCOTT WILL CASE.

FURTHER EVIDENCE. CASE AGAINST WILL ENDED. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON,_jfuly 1. In the Scott will case, Major Arbuthnot gave evidence of seeing Lady Sackville and her daughter in Sir John Scott’s library. Ho wondered whether they were interfering with Sir John s papers. Ho told the Hisses Scott what ho had seen. Witness to some extent connected the occurrence with the missing codicil. Malcolm Scott, stockbroker, gave evidence as to transactions for Sir John on the Stock Exchange. Sir John’s account with witness to the date of Ids death was £IIO,OOO. Sir John had deposited securities worth £170,000, this large margiu enabling him to draw cheques to any amount. Sir John was perfectly competent to do big Stock Exchange transactions. Miss Edith Davison testified that Lady Sackvillo once praised Sir John extravagantly, adding that she understood that he intended that she should take him under charge aud wean him from the dull life ho had been living.

The wife of Dr. Benjamin Franklin testified that Sir Jolm told her that he was the laughing stock of the dub because ( he drove there with his two sisters daily. Lady Sackville gave him that information.

Dr. Benjamin Franklin testified that during Sir, John’s first''illness ho had not allowed her ladyship to see his patient, as even the sisters were scarcely permitted to see him. She replied: “Oh, but I am more than a sister.” Her maimer in Sir John’s house was that of the mistress.

Major Arbuthnot testified as to the library incident, and. as to seeing the ladies leaving on tip-toe. When he narrated the incident to Sir John the latter stared dazedly and had a nerve storm of impotent rage. Cross-examin-ed, he declined to make an3’ suggestion as to why Lady Sackville and her daughter acted as described. Ho wondered whether her ladyship was interfering with Sir John’s papers. He did not think of the will at the time, but after Sir John’s death, hearing that the will was missing, ho wrote a statement of the incident, thinking that it might be inquired into. The case against the will is practically completed, and Sir E. Carson to-day will outline the Sackville’s defence.