Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-07-03
Fight FOR MILLIONS
STILL ON
IN SUIT TO BREAK WILL OF SIR JOHN
MURRAY SCOTT, LADY SACKvILLE
TELLS HOW BAR0NET CAME TO RE.
member HER IN HIS WILL.

London, July 3.--"The hglt. for the
mnlions." the suit in 1hict tin rela-
tives of the late John Murray Scott
are endeavoring to have pronounced
invalid on account of alleged undue
influence, the will by which he left
the bulk of his fortune Of S5000,000 to
Lady Sackville, was resumed today In
the probate, divorce and admiralty
court.
AS soon as the presiding Judge, Sir
Samuel Thomas Evans, had taken his
seat on the bench, Lady Sackville re
turned to the witness stand and under
direct examination by Sir Edward
Pearson, her counsel, resumed her
account Of the friendship with the
|haronet. She said it was in the spring
| OF 1900 while she and the baronet were
driving together that Sir John first
told her of his intention to leave her
! 81 100000 He told her that now his
mother was dead, and Lady Sackville
had taken great place in his life
and that he was going to leave her the
iS1 100000, his furniture, his houses at
Bagatelle, near Paris, and at Lisbon
and, indeed, all except the houses il
London which he had left to his sis
ters and brothers.
Lady Sackville swore she never
saw the will and did not know it had
been made until much later when
Sir John spoke of revoking it.
The witness said she and her family
were referred to by the SCOTS as the
"locusts.' although to her face they
were charming.
She said Scott threatened to revoke |
his will on the slightest provocasion
Once when she could not lunch |
with him he said: Very wel., | vill /
60 and change my will Aft.rwar'l /
however, he said, "You little rascal,
you know l would not do that"
Under cross examination Ia IL Sack
vile said she and her husband spent
about $4,000 year.
Lady Sackville said that her friend
ship with Sir John was a platonic
one. When she first invited him to
Knole Park she did not know that he
was wealthy and although her father
was embarrassed it never occurred to
her to get money from him. She
succeeded, she said, in securing all
the plate belonging to Knole Park
which was sold, except gold tea set
a present from King George I, to the
first duke of Dorset. which went to
IT. was valued at $25,000.
Lady Sackville sobbed bitterly
when she was questioned about a let |
ter to a friend in which she had said
Scott was making a new will "leav-
ing everything he had dangled before
my weary eyes for ten years away
from u.s.
In torrent of rage she said it was
/ most monstrous thing for social
ID friend to give this letter up. The I
was one too who had been
.alking always about the Scots. She
pointed out that further on in the let
er she had written "I am very sorry
o lose his friendship as friends are
are"
1t was some time before witness t
'Oulu compose nerSell Al OlHef u
ime sshe kept the court in tears of
aughter as when she described Wal !
er Scott's actions in making love to il
Ter and in her mimicking of the a
ersons she mentioned in the course L
f her evidence CT
She insisted that Scott had left his G.
money for Knole Park and not for h
er and that the great link between f,
cott and herself was their knowl- J,
dge of art. n