The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-10 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday, Abraham Abrahams, of the Jewish persua-
sion, was charged with fraudulently obtaining the sum of
71. from a poor widow, named Sharpe, residing in Free-
school-street, Bermondsey.
The prisoner was fully committed.

SPRING ASSIZES.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—NRwcAsTLE, MARCH 5.

These Assizes have been unusually barren of public in-
terest. The business commenced before Mr. Baron
Parke on Thursday at mid-day, and finished this day at
noon. The cases of most interest were two Special Jury
cases from Hexham, which were tried yesterday.
The first, Hetherington v. Errington, was a dispute as to
some landed property in Hexham, Northumberland, worth
between six and seven thousand pounds, which the defen-
dant claimed as heir-at-law of Elizabeth Armstrong. The
last undisputed possessor of it was a gentleman of the name
of Ord, who died in 1832, bequeathing it to two ladies of
the name of Poole, who reside at North Shields ; they are
the real plaintiffs in the case, the nominal plaintiff, John
Hetherington, merely the tenant of one of the farms called
Holmes, on which the defendant, in July last, distrained
for rent. The defendant, Richard Errington, though he
admitted the legal possession of the late Mr. Ord, con-
tended that a common ancestor, Elizabeth Armstrong, had,
in 1770, bequeathed the estates in question to a person of
the name of Scot, with the remainder to her " right
heirs." The defendant did not attempt to prove his pe-
digree, but relied on an alleged attornment by the plain-
tiff, and called a witness of the name of Ebiltor to prove
it. As, however, not a sixpence in the shape of rent or
acknowledgment had been paid, and the Misses Poole
were able to show that a regular attornment had been
made to them,

The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff.
The other case of interest was Robson v. Errington. In
this case the guardians of Jane Errington, infant daughter
of the late William Errington, many years a common car-
rier between Ircaster and Hexham, sought to set aside a
bill in which Mr. Errington left the bulk of his property to
his widow, the defendant, on the ground that it was not
duly executed.
The will having been produced by Mr. Hudson, a proc-
tor of York,
William Dixon, a law-stationer of Hexham, deposed that
on the 12th January, 1831, he wrote the will agreeably to
the late William Errington's instructions ; and he saw him
sign it, and attested it himself, and saw it attested by Mr.
William Burn, landlord of the White Hart Inn at Hex-
ham, and by Mr. James Robson, a grocer there.
Several witnesses proved that the signature of Mr. Er-
rington was in his own handwriting.
For the plaintiff it was contended, that neither Burn
nor Robson had any recollection of witnessing the will,
and that what purported to be their signatures were not
written by them.
William Burn, who is 70 years of age, was called. He
said he had no recollection of witnessing Errington's will ;
that his name, attached to it, was not written by him,
nor like his handwriting.
The Judge requested him to write his name in Court,
and that seemed at once to satisfy Mr. Baron Parke, the
Counsel, and the Jury, that the signature to the will was
his writing.

Mr. Robson did not remember witnessing the will, but
said he believed the signature of James Robson was his
writing.
The Jury then pronounced a verdict for the defendant,
thus establishing the validity of the will.