The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-13 00:00:00

The Extraordinary Charge of Forging the

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

Countess of Bellew's Will.

Mrs. Anne Casse, a lady, 80 years of age, of
Winterton House, St. John's Wood, appeared in
discharge of her personal recognisances of £l,OOO,
to answer the charges of having forged the signa-
ture of the late Caroline Countess Bellew to a will
or deed of gift ; of having likewise forged the sig-
nature of Esther Simmons to the same will, or deed
of gift, and further with uttering the same as the
genuine document.
Mr. Piffard, barrister, prosecuted. Mr. Lewis,
sen., of Ely-place, defended. _ _

[Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
WARWICK RACES—Tms DAY.

RACING STAKES.

Sutton 1
Cockchafer 2
Cotillon

Seven ran,
TRIAL STAKES.

Saccharometca
Attache
Kangaroo 3
Five ran.

1

Upon the defendant being placed at the bar,

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING—Tins DAY.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
4to 1 agst Mail Train (taken)
100 to 8 agst Scamander (taken)
100 to 6 agst Pintail (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
1000 to 35 agst Sandal (taken)
CITY AND SUBURBAN HANDICAP.
7to 1 agst Out and Outer (taken)
30 to 1 agst Vandervelde (taken)
33 to 1 agst Morris Dancer (taken)
Very little doing.

Mr. Lewis submitted that no offence had been
committed. By the 24th and 25th Vic., cap. 98,
sec. 21, it was necessarily to be proved that a will
was to be forged with intent to defraud. Bequests
to attesting witnesses were void, and there could
be no interest for Mrs. Casse to defraud, as she
could have no claim, and nobody could be de-
frauded.

Mr. Arnold said could not the next of kin be
defrauded?

Mr. Lewis contended that she could not defraud
herself.

TAT TERSALLS'—Last Eveninz.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
4to 1 agst Mail Train (taken)
12 to 1 agst Raglan (taken and offered)
14 to 1 Scamander (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
12 to 1 agst Gong (taken)
20 to 1 agst Baragah (taken)
33 to 1 agst Mail Train (taken)
33 to 1 agst Buckfoot (taken)
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
7to 1 agst Out-and-Outer (taken)
15 to 1 agst Brahma (taken)
100 to 6 agst Pepper's Ghost (taken)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
11 to 4 agst Student (taken)
3 to 1 agst Lord Lyon (taken)
THE DERBY.
10 to 1 agst Student (taken)
50 to 1 agst Laneret (taken)
66 to 1 agst Knight of the Crescent (taken)
Very little betting.

Mr. Arnold—lf there were no will the property
would be divided among the next of kin, and her
forging the will might defraud those persons.

Mr. Lewis—The next point I submit is that the
alleged testamentary paper is not a will at all. It
merely purports to be a copy of a will made by the
Countess. The will itself is headed August, 1853,
and the will before you bears date 1863, and begins
by the words—" Copy of will or deed of gift." It
bears no date except August 5, 1863, and at the
end it states that it is a copy merely of a will made
in August, 1853. Mrs. Casse didn't attest this as
a will, but as a copy.
Mr. Arnold held that it was in substance made
and attested as a genuine will.
Mr. Lewis—The jury didn't find it was a will or
not. They only found that there was no evidence
to prove that it was the last will and testament of
the Countess. Mrs. Casse didn't propound this as
a will of the Countess ; she only gave it over as a
paper she had in her possession, and was in duty
bound to give it up. In point of fact and law there
was no intent to defraud, and no forgery to intent
to defraud. I only do it to save time, considering
my objections are well based. Mrs. Casse produced
it under a subpcena. If I forged your name to a
bill of exchange, and kept it in my possession to
look at, that cannot be said to be a forgery in law ;
or if a man have base coin in his possession and does
not utter it he commits no offence, because there is
no intent to defraud. A person who made a false
signature to a will to defraud any parties, would,
on the death of the party, produce the instrument
and set about the fraud.

All Mr. Sutton's horses are struck out at Northampton
except Jezebel.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1866.
MARCH.

Warwick Spring
Doncaster
Lewes Spring
Croxton Park ' 16

Northampton 2O
Windsor Spring
28
Newcastle Spring

Newmarket Craven 2
Durham
Blackheath & Woolwich 2
Catterick Bridge
Abergavenny 5
Lichfield Spring
Chelmsford Spring

Thirsk lO
Epsom Spring
Newmarket Ist Spring l6
Liverpool Hunt Cup 2O
Chester
Curragh 24

Ascot Spring - 1
Salisbury
Bath 8
Harpenden lO
York Spring

Epsom Summer l5
Uxbridge ...
Manchester
Ascot Summer

Mr. Arnold —lf these arguments are raised when
the case goes for trial, they had better be raised in a
superior court. I shall not decide them to stop the
case.

Mr. Inspector Tanner, of the detective division,
was called by Mr. Piffard to prove that some bank
notes the countess had lost and accused Miss Bel-
lew's maid of stealing were traced by Inspector
Tanner to the countess herself.
Mr. Arnold asked how that could be evidence ?
Mr. Piffard submitted that it was good corrobo-
ration.

Windsor Summer 5
Newton
Hampton 7
Odiham
Bibury l3
Stockbridge
Chelmsford l9
JU.

Liverpool
Beverley 2O
Ipswich
Hungerford
Newcastle on-Tyne 26
Curragh 26
Worcester
dr.
Stamford l9
Radcliffe 23
Winchester 24
Southampton 25
Huntingdon
Goodwood 3l

Carlisle
Newmarket July
Pontefract
Abingdon
Reading
Nottingham
Down Royal Corp lB
AUG

Mr. Lewis apprehended it could not be evidence
against the prisoner, as he was no party to it.
Inspector Tanner was ordered to stand down.

Mr: Edwin Dove—l am a cashier in the London
Joint-Stock Bank, Pall-mall. I knew the late
Countess Caroline Bellew. (Looking at letters
produced.) These are her handwriting. I don't
profess to understand her general handwriting. To
the best of my belief all these are her handwriting.
(Looking at the signature.) "C. Bellew" to the
will. I should say it was not in her handwriting.
Cross-examined—l said I would not pay a cheque
upon the "C"in a letter produced. Upon all sig-
natures in the litters produced I would pay cheques.
Mr. Arnold—Look at the two documents pro-
duced at the trial. Would you pay upon both of
those signatures ?
Answer—l would upon the one and question the
other. In all probability the latter would be de-
cided to be her handwriting.

Brighton 7
Brighton Club ..........h 9
Lewes lO
ham 14
Wolverhampton l4
Stockton l5
Oxford l6
Hastings 2l

York August 2l
Plymouth
Lichfield
Devon and Exeter 2B
Tunbridge 2B
Derby Sumnier 29
Weymouth 3O

SEPTEMBER.
Warwick September 4 Richmond
Curragh
Leicester 6 Monmouth
Doncaster
Brecon l7 I Newmarket Ist October 25
Canterbury lB Walsall
OCTOBER.

Northampton 2 I Newmarket Houghton 22

Newmarket 2d October._
Cturamh
NOVE.

8 I Worcester _
80

:BER.

Lincoln - i I
Liverpool

Shrewsbury
Leamington Hunt l9

By Mr. Lewis—l remember the entire bundle
being put into my hand in court.
58 Mr. Arnold —You looked at them just now, and
swore only two were shown to you.
• Witness—Allow me to correct that.

IRISH RACING FIXTURES FOR 1866.
APRIL.

Tralee

MAY.

Curragh
Bald.oyle Spring B, 9

By Mr. Lewis—l am well acquainted with Miss
Bellew's writing. This I should think was not like
her usual signature.
Mr. Lewis—lt was one of those very letters he
was handed on the trial and swore to.

Witness continued--That is her handwriting to
the best of my belief (looking at the signature to
the will through a piece of cartridge paper, the body
being concealed and the signature only visible.)
Mr. Lewis—That is the will I showed him.
(Great laughter).
Mr. Arnold—You may stand down, sir.
Mr. Lewis—A witness in our favour.

The case was proceeding when we went to press.

SHIPPING INTELLIGE NCE. —This Day.

LONDON, March 13.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Easterly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
PLYMOUTH, March 12.—Wind N. to N.E.—Arrived—
Fruitorer, screw steamer, from Arklow for St. Servan
to coal.

QuEmisrowil, March 12.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Aus-
tralian, screw steamer, from Liverpool, and then pro-
ceeded for New York.
PORTSMOUTH, March 12.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Frede-
rick Wilhelm, from Berbice.
LITERPon, March 12.—Wind
steamer, from Islay.
POOLE, March 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrived.—Jane Eliza-
beth, from Zeinickzee.

OFF LIVEPOOL, March 12.—Wind N,W.—Arrived—The
Liberator, from

SCILLY, March 12,-----Wind N.W.—Sailed—Rostless, for
Palormo.

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PLYMOUTH, Tuesday Morning.
The Russian corvette Bogatir, 17, Capt. Baron Brick-
holty, from Japan, last from the Cape and St. Helena, ar-
rived in the Sound this morning, bound for Cherbourg.
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, March 12.—Clara Catherine, from Nesvig; Elite,
from St. Michael's ; Memento, from Oporto.
Arrived, March 13.—Caldbeak, from Singapore ; Louisa
Jane, from Guernsey.

DxAx, Tuesday Morning.
Passed—Alida, from London, for Rio Janeiro ; Seaton,
screw steamer, from Sunderland, for Bordeaux ; Eleanor
Isabella, brig, and Alfred of Arundel—both from north,
for west.

Sailed—Berwickshire, Lady Octavio, Queen of the
North, with most of the outward-bound, for westward.

L'AFRICAME.—The hundredth representation of
the " Africaine" took place on Friday night at the Paris
Opera. The bust of Aleyerbeer was on this occasion
crowned with laurel, and a cantata sung in his honour.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS WITHIN PRISONS.-Alr.
/Ebbed's bill, to provide for the carrying out of capital
punishments within prisons, has been printed. The exe-
cution is to be witnessed by certain officials, and their cer-
tificates of the fact are to bo exhibited outside the prison,
and afterwards transmitted to the Secretary of State. The
Government intends to bring forward a measure on the
same subject, and also to adopt the recommendations of
the Royal Commissioners.

SHOCKING MURDER OF A CHILD. Yesterday an
inquest was held in Essex street, Strand, on the body of a
male child supposed to have been murdered. Early on
Friday morning the body was found made up in a bundle
in the passage leading to Lincoln's-inn Chapel, and a me-
dical examination proved it to bo the body of a well-de-
veloped male child, and had been born alive. There was
a piece of twine tied tightly round the neck, and the cause
of death was strangulation. The jury returned a verdict
of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown.
PARLI3IENTARY OATHS BILL.—Mr. Disraeli gave
notice last night of his intention to propose the following
form of oath in substitution of that proposed by the Go-
vernment :—" I, A B, do swear that I will be faithful and
bear true allegiance to her Majesty Queen Victoria, her
heirs and successors. And Ido faithfully promise to
maintain, support, and defend the succession to the Crown
as the same stands limited and settled by an act passed in
the reign of King William 111., intit.uled " An Act for the
further Limitation of the Crown, and for the securing the
Rights and Liberties of the Subject.' And I do further
solemnly declare that her Majesty is the only supreme
governor of this realm, and that no foreign prince, pre-
late, state, or potentate has any jurisdiction or authority
iu this country. So help me God."

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, _MARCH 13, 1866.