The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-17 00:00:00

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oee4ed him. My father et first allowed

pound •

Mr. Bovill submitted that evidence of this character WWI
immateriaL The question was whether a certain deed
dated the 9th of Jaauary, 1866, was a geouine instrument
or not
. .

Baran Channel' said it appeared to him that the evidence
vu samisen:de ; but it wee a very importaet awe, and he
should take a note of the objection. He thought that the
treatment of the sou by the father was an admianible fact
in the cause:

—The examination of Mr. !Coupell was then continued. He
said—My father increased the allowance to 2.35. a Week
in 1852, and be afterwards gave me 30e. a week. I
bad to provide my clothes sod my dinner in the
City. He continual this allowance down to the period of
his death. At the and of 1855 I was in difficulties as to
money matters. Those difficulties commenced from the
time my tatber omitted to give Me • solid addition to my
allowance, and in January, 1856, I owed my bankers, the
Loudon and Westminster Bank, • large sum of money. I
kept an account at this time with Meson Barnes and Co.,
the Bank of England, and I think also with the Unity Bank.
I owed the London and Westminster Bank at this time
12,0001. That sum had been borrowed in August, 1855, and
it wee to be repaid in January, 1856. I was very desirous to
repay this sum, but my accounts were very low at all my
beaters, and I owed NUM Berries and Co. 4,8001., if not
more. I atm owed 40,0001. to the Guardian Insuranes
Company, and a large earn to my solicitor, Mr. Whittaker—
*rural thousand pounds. I bad no means whatever
be pay these debts, and my father knew nothing
about them. —The wittame here proceeded to explain
the cirsumstances cousected with the copyhold pre-
of the Great Wesley estate being surrendered
Is Ida canoe in order that some beneficial umagenuat
might be made with the steward of the manor. Mr. Ron-
peU went on to my that in oonsequence of this he obtained
n of the title deeds relating to the Esaex property.
is father, he said, opened the strong box at Cross-street,
and he took the whole of the deeds relating to the Great
Worley estate, and at his father's request he Jure him a
receipt, but be described the property as the ' Havering
property" instead of the Great Worley property. He said
that he purposely confused the two properties, but his father
discovered the error and corrected it. Mr. Roupell then
went oo to my that after be obtained poriadon of the deeds
he made fair copies of them, and also procured copies of the
leases to the tenants, and he took all the documents except
the originals afterward, to Mr. Whittaker, his solicitor, and
he kept the original deeds in his own poseession, and looked
them up in his bureau.
Mr. Bovill, during the examination, took a number of
technical objections to the evidence that was proposed to
be Oven.
fiejsurt Shea observed that if so many objections were
takes, the cause would never be brought to an end.
Mr. Bovill said that in • cause like this he should take
every fide objection that occurred to him, and bb
friends must perfectly understand that We noose
would be certainly taken by him.
Berea Channell said that the learned counsel was per-1
feet); justified in taking every legal objection that was ad-
iodated to advance the interests of his aliente.
Mr. Lush then called for the production of certain papers
is reference to other proceedings that had been taken in
thisr, and this led to a very loos technical discusaiou,
the ult of which was that the required documents were
hen in by Mr. Horrid
Mr. Boupell was then further examined, and the do-
cuments that had bees produoed were hooded to him.
He said that he took the drafts of the Lame to
Mr. Whitaker, his solicitor, and instructed him to pre-
pare • conveyance of the property from his father to
himself, and he had previously altered the amount
d the rent and increseed the term of the lease, was to
make the property appear to he of greater value than it
really was. Mr. Itoupo was further questioned upon these
points, mad he entered into a detail of the particulars, the
remit being an admiedon by him that he had furred the deed
of gift of the propert , and had also falsified all the other
particukre cone with the property, his object being
to raise the 12,0001. that was due to the London
and Westminster Bank. He said that Mr. Whitaker
was not acquainted with his father, and when he asked him
to prepare the deed of oonveyanee Mr. Wluttaker wished to
have his authority, and he induced his sister to write a
letter to him authorising him to prepare the deed of con-
veyance, and lie forged his father's name to this letter,
and he knew nothing whatever about it. Having done this,
be Waded the letter to Mr. Whittaker, and upon the be.
list that it was genuine the conveyance of the property
I was prepared, and wither instructed him to raise money
I upon the property, he did not mention any amount, but
I wished to have as much as he could get.
l At this stage the muss was adjourned.