A MISSING GODICIL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 48, 2 July 1913, Page 5

A MISSING GODICIL.

THE SAGKYSLLE SCANDAL.j SEN SAT 1 ()N AL KViD EN CE. j [By Electric Telegraph— Com right [United Press Association.] London, June nu. in the Scott will case, Alajor Aibuthnot gave evidence of seeing Lady Sackvilie and her daughter in Scott’s library. He wandered whether they were interfering with Sir John's papers. Ho told the -Misses Scott what he. had seen. Witness was, to some extent, connected with the missing codicil. CASE FOR THE WILL CLOSED. London, July 1. .Malcolm Scott, stock-broker, testified to transactions for Sir John on the Stock Exchange. Sir John’s account with witness to the date of his death was £110,090. -Sir John had deposited securities worth £170,000, this large margin 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 Sackville once praised Sir John; extravagantly, adding that she under-1 stood that ho intended that she should | take him under her charge and wean j him from the dull life he had beenj living. The wife of Dr. Benjamin Franklin testified that Sir John told her that ho was the laughing stock of the club because lie drove there with nis tv>o sisters daily. Lady Sackville gave him that information. Dr. Benjamin Franklin testified that I 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, lint I am more than a sister.” Her manner 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. Cross-examined, lie declined to make any suggestion as to why Lady Sackville and her| daughter acted as described. Ho won-j dored whether her ladyship was in-j terfering 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, lie wrote a I statement of the incident, thinking that it might be enquired into. The case against the will is practically completed, and Sir E. Carson'today will outline the Sackvilles’ defence.