The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-18 00:00:00

time bine the death of the deeereed they called upon
an iedividnal reed Barker, who was a soft of amateur
lawyer, and kaew a little about the making and wording
of wills, wed asked him to write out a will for Mr. Jack-
son. Berber did on and the Wraps took the copy of such
will away with then:. The wordins of this document an-
vil* ism legal knowledge, as it was couched in bgal
iris ThWraggs subsequently waited upon Barkeroul
Naked him to forge the signature of John Jackson to the wIB,
bat be refused to do so. Upon this Wee. Wrap cared to
give him 5,0001. to forge the signature, but he still des sat,
and before leaving the house Wm. W nafferlsek ft
make Barker's wife • present of 1,0001. if she siwY mad
in persuading her husband to accede to his applimilma. The
learned counsel said he should not be able le pews di by
Barker, fer he was now dead, but that his widen would
speak to the facts be had stated. At tbe Insesell of the de-
ceased, so he hod before said, no was produced or
read, and Sarah Midtowns entered into peneeffen of the
property, took charge of everything, received the rents,
and treated the whole of the effects of the deuesed as her
' own. Eventually the next of kin, having beard certain
rumours respecting. the property of the late Mr. Jun..,
considered it desirable to assert his rights. He applied
to edwinister to the estate and effects of the damaged, as being
the next of kin, nothing of the will having been heard of up
to that time. This was opposed by Sarah Badbourne, who
put in the will, protesting that it was the last will and testa-
ment of the person whose signature it bore, and But the
whole of the property had been left to her. It therefore
became necessary that the validity of this will should be
proved, end the attesting witnentes were (Idled upon to
speak to the circumstances connected with the testator signing
his name. The two Sills were consequently required to give
midence, but not appearing, they were committed to gaol
for contempt of court. After remaining in prison for some
time they were released, and they then gave evidence in the
Ecclosisatical Court, deposing that Mr. Jackson had duly
signed the will, and that they were the attesting Inhume,
At the same time Oldershaw a himself sea minus, upon
which Sarah Redbourne to be in great distress, and
expressed herself as exceeding ly sorry that she had bed any-
to do with the will, laying the blame upon Oldershaw, as
being the party who bad led her into it. 1 his showed tom-
Okay on the part of ltadbourne with the two Sills and
Olderehaw, the latter of whom, in ell probability, had pre-
vailed upon Radbourne to become his tool in the transaction.
The two Sills, while in gaol, raid that they had done is
respect to this will what would tampon than in order to
sieve Olderehaw and Redbourne ; that they could tell whet
wouldErt
will,
and the whole party; that Jocks=
never the , and that the whole affair was a bead
and a . In desrnling the pens and ink with which
the will was alleged to have been signed, the two Sills, in
their evidence, differed is many important particulars to
Oldenhaw, showing that if these parties had been speaking
to the real truth there could have been no such discrepancy.
It was said there was only one inkstand in the MOM when
the will wee_eigned, but the signatures of the two Sills, and
that at the deceased, were written in different coloured ink, a
eireamitanes which could not have °marred with only •
single iabtand. In eonclueion, the learned counsel sub•
witted that the whole of the prisoner. had acted in een-
cart with • common design. The Sills knew full well that
they were appending their names to a forged will, the Wrape
had offered money for the obtaining of a tiered signature of
the deceased, Radtourne knew that Mr. Jackson never made
• will, pestle consented to a will being forged in her favour,
end Olderebaw bulbul the principal mover in the transac-
t lion, having made the funaleltadbourne his dupe. From all
the surrounding circumstances of the cue, the learned
r counsel said it was clear that the priunere had conspired to-
gether in the forging and uttering of the will in question,
sad wlthoat entering into the minor details, which would
weepy too much time, he should proceed to call the evi-
, dean.
, A large samba, of enrages Iftre celled, showing that
the demised always refused with great pertinacity to make •
will, that the existence army wash document was not known
until Nome time after the towel al Mr. Jackman, and the
facts in enenezion with the Tart the eiz primate took in the
preparetion and esration of the alleged forged will were
graved in evidence.
The case for the prosecution occupied all day, and was not
condaded when our report was despatched.