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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 2.

A custom case of either forgery or perjury has
occupied many days of the sittings of the Probate
Court. The question arose with reference to
the will of the late Mies CAROLINE BELLEW, an
eccentric lady of some property, who in virtue of
a foreign title was commonly called Countess
Itimi.ew. The document in question pro-
fessed to be only a copy or duplicate of
the original will, which could not be disco-
vered. But the copy was, if genuine, equally
effectual, for it bore the signature of the testatrix,
and of attesting witnesses. In an exceedingly
long preamble the motives for its execution were
set forth. These were declared to be that a
prior will had, during the Countess's illness, been
abstracted by her sister and a German maid in the
sister's service ; and the further reason or expla-1
nation was added, that this sister had persisted in
retaining in her service her German attendant,
who was suspected by the Countess of having been
guilty of theft of money from her, and for whom
at all events she entertained an invincible dislike.
The preamble then went on to say that as the
result of no will being discovered would be to
disappoint the testatrix's brother of his just expeo-
tations, she bad determined to obviate such a
consequence by executing a new will, which
she should confide to an aged friend on whom
she could rely to hold it safely till her death, and
after that to hand it to the person beneficially en-
titled under it. After this exordium, the will
proceeded to give the testatrix's whole property to
her brother, with the exception of some small
legacies, a gift of 5001. to her sister, and another
gift of 500/. to a Mrs. CASSE, to whom it also
stated a post-obit bond for the like amount had
also been given ; and the whole copy was in
Mrs. Cesee's handwriting, with the exception of
the signatures. Mrs. CASSE was herself one of
the witnesses, but another had attested by a mark,
and a third had signed. Moreover, Mrs. Cases
was herself the aged friend to whose charge the
document was entrusted. Oa the Countess's
death a search was made by the brother, but no
will was found. Mrs. Caeca was applied to, but
she only declared that she knew there was a will,
which would be forthcoming at the proper time.
A citation from the Probate Court then issued
against her, in obedience to which she deposited
the document which had been confided to her
charge. The brother, in whose favour it was
conceived, sought to establish its validity—the
sister sought to set it aside as a forgery.
The case made in support of the document was
undoubtedly very strong. The witness who had
signed with a mark was called, and positively
identified his mark. The other witness bes;des
Mrs. CAME, a woman of the name of SIMMONS;
was dead, but the authenticity of her signature
was sworn to by a fellow-servant. Sir FITZROY
KELLY, and many other persons who had been
intimately acquainted with the deceased lady, de-
posed to their belief of the genuineness of her
signature. Her medical attendants deposed that
in her last moments she had given them to un-
derstand that her worldly affairs were settled,
and that her brother was the relative whose
interests were nearest her heart. But the thief
witness was Mrs. Caws herself. This lady, now
eighty years of age, had of course to undergo a
severe cross-examination, in which the history of
her whole life was inquired into. It appeared that
the chief point to her discredit was that in 1826 she
bad been married, as she said, to the late Lord
SALTOUN under the name of Colonel CARTER ; that
she had afterwards discovered he was already
married, but that she continued to live with him,
always, as she said, considering herself his wife.
After his death, in 1853, she produced three
bonds, bearing to be executed by him in her
favour, for a sum in all of 5,0001., with an annuity
of 7001. a year. But these were disputedjon the
allegation of being forgeries, and after litigation
had commenced Mrs. Ca= withdrew them. Her
reason for this was, as she meld, that she had no
money to continue the litigation ; but she was in
the enjoyment of 4001. a year under Lord Sas,-
TOUR'S will, as to which there was no dispute.
And she had produced the bonds after his death
from a sealed packet, given her, she said, by his
lordship in consideration of her surrendering her
certificate of marriage. As to the post obit bond
said to have been given her by Countess Bausw, it
was not produced at all. Mrs. Cesss'e evidence,
if it was to be believed, was conclusive in favour
of the will, for she corroborated every particular
mentioned in the preamble, and swore positively
to the execution of the document by her late friend.
Against this evidence was set that of an eqnal
number of the Countess's friends, who all declared
'heir belief that her alleged signature was a for-
gery. Testimony as decided was given by various
experts in handwriting, who had compared the
signature with other signatures of admitted genuine
character. Inspector TANNER proved that he had
been called in to trace the money alleged to have
been stolen by the sister's German servant, but
that be had irsoed most of the notes back to
Countess Maxim's own band, a fact which cer-
tainly exonerated the alleged thief, but seemed
rather to confirm than to disprove the probability
that the reiterated accusations in the will were the
real production of an eccentric brain. But the
chief witness on this side was also an old lady,
the sister herself, Miss FRANCES Betray.
She quite confirmed the fact that there