THE SCOTT CASE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 July 1913, Page 5

THE SCOTT CASE.

HEARING CONTINUED

(Received July 1, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, J iino 30. 'hf Prfbuf-o l/ivi-io; >f Iho High Court of Just'oo * <s>y +: hearing of the objection of Mr Malcolm Scott to the graining of pr.hate of the will of his brother, Sir John Murray Soott, was continued. Sir Edward Carson, K.C., is representing Lord and Lsdv Sackville. and the Right Hon. F. E. Smith, K.C., ig counsel for Mr Malcolm Scott. Major Arbuthnot continued his evidence. Ho said he saw Lady Saokville and her daughter in tho library at Sir John's house, and he had wondered whether they had been interfering with papers.

INTERESTING EVIDENCE

MORE ABOUT LADY SACKVILLE. I Received This Morning, 12.25 o'clock. LONDON, July 1. Mr Malcolm Scott, stockbroker, testified to transactions with Sir John Scott on the Stock Exchange: Sir John's account with witness at the date of his death was £IIO,OOO. Sir John had deposited securities worth £170,000 at a large margin, enabling him to draw cheques for any amount. Sir John was perfectly competent to carry out big Stock Exchange transactions. Miss Edith Davison testified that Lady Sackville once praised Sir John extravagantly, adding that she understood he intended that she should take him under her charge and wean him from the dull life he had been* living. The wife of General Benjamin Franklin testified that Sir John told her he wae the laughing stock of his club, because he drove thither with his two sisters daily. Lady Sackville gave him that information. General Benjamin Franklin gave .evidence that during Sir John's first illness he did not allow her ladyship to see the patient, as even his sisters were scarcely permitted to see him. She replied: "Oh, but I am more than his eister." Her manner in Sir John's house was that of the mistross. - Major Arbuthnot testified to the library incident and seeing the ladies leaving on tip-toe. When. he narrated the incident to Sir John, the latter stared dazedly, and , said: ' 'They had a nerve." He was in,a storm of impotent rage. Cross-examined, witness declined to make suggestions why .Lady Sackville and her daughter acted as described. He 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 of the will being miseine, he wr6te a statement of the incident, thinking it might be inquired into. The case for plaintiffs ia practically completed. Sir Edward Caraon will to-day outline the Sackville's defence.