The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-17 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(Before Baron Cleasby.)
Jae Sprig, 40, a respectable-looking man, who was
described as a militate'', was charged with feloniously
forging and littering a will purporting to be the Int will
and tedasmet of one Henry Trimmer, deceased, with
intent to &hued.
Mr. Herding* Oiffard, QC., was specially retained,
with Kr. Poland and Mr. Beasley to conduct the prose-
cution an behalf of the Treasury, by whom the case had
been taken up ; Serjeant Tindal Atkinson was specially
retainiedso,issr. wi* Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Grain, on behalf of
the pr _
lir. Gilled, QC., in opening the ease for the proseGn-
boo, described it as one of very considerable public
parttime, and one which, from the nature of the /acts
connected with it, would require their most serious con-
sideration. He than proceeded to detail the nature
of the evidence he 'proposed to adduce, which peared to
be of: • very complicated character, and will -probably
be best understood in the form of • narrative. It ap-
peared that as far book as the year 1824 a person named
John Neale, who was possessed of very considerable
landed property in Hamplure and the borders of Busse:,
made a will, by which he bequeathed a considerable
quantity of his property to one Richard Trimmer, the
father of the Henry Trimmer mentioned in the indict-
ment, but subject to the life interest of his daughter, who
lived for a great many year* afterwards, and Richard
Trimmer consequently never took any benefit under the
will of Neale, and upon his death his interest passed to
his eon, Henry Trimmer. The latter made a will in 1844,
by which he bequeathed all his interest in Nivile's pro-
perty to a labouring man named Woods ; but at this
time the interest FO bequeathed was considered
to be so remote that the will was not proved,
and it remained in the hands of the *elicitors
until the year 180, ehen Neale's daughter, in
whom the life interest was vested, died, and that in-
terest, of muse, ceased. The will of 1844 then became of
importance; it was admitted to be a genuine instrument,
both the attesting sinuses@ were alive, and then) was no
doubt that the instrument was executed by Henry 'Prim-
mer, and under it Woods, who was an entire stringer to
the family, would have come into possession of property
to the amount of 6,001.1. The children and grandchildren
of Richard Trimmer were naturally not very well pleased
at being deprived of such an amount of property, and
seeing at to • complete stranger, and the sunaitim
on the of the prosecution, was that this fee.
led to will that was the subject of the indictment being
errasetsl prisoner. According to the case for
the an extraordinary amount of Gunning
and had been exhibited in carrying out the
&Urged ohms. Henry Trimmer, it appeared, died in
IMmigy, MS, three yeareafter, making-5a genaine will.
and le was neesseary to get at hie handwnting, and to
being Steward • fabricated inelzumeat, which was to be
ll=llas having been miewated between the years
047, and to proeurethe signatares of persons as
:=sawitatmese who were known to have Dees
with the bat who must be dead,
se as to Prevent ate el their Wag called to
dimprove genainsnem el thessemaat. It was
2Vthat the prisoner==ellibbess a soli-
dierk, had been in " the rela-
tion of old Richard Weimer, Mat set aloud
iingitinaZell of persons who were eapsetelbed wily
, and that be premed some of his bend-
writing, and in MieatirWsras •po
to" rier=irehouilii eisainirearefielis
under what was tirkelearsaw"
wee di and •
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wkateatrhalt: tot will
pronounced to be ory,_assol the preeent' prowiewthia
was directed to be kir tid
_against the Prisolgarr, who WOO
the most important ex in the Probate
Pert in support of the will of 1846. It should be slated

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