The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-05
LADY SACKV|LLE
ON STAND IN FIGHT
FOR MILLIONS SUIT
Fashionable London Audi.
ence Attends the Trial.
Claims Incidents
Exaggerated

| London, July 4.-Reappearance OF
the witness stand today of Lady Sack
Vile, daughter of the former British
minister at Washington, to undergo
, further cross-examination in the suit
known as the fight for millions agair
attracted fashionable audience to tht
probate court.
Among the crowd of listeners wa.
Mrs. Asquith, wife of the premier. anc
other cabinet ministers wives.
The suit was instituted by relatives
of the late Sir John Murray Scott to
have pronounced invalid on account oil
alleged undue influence the testament
by which he left the bulk of his for
tune of $4,000, 900 to Lady Sackville
Frederick E. Smith. one of the par
liamentary unionist leaders, who is
counsel for the Scott family, questioned
Lady Sackville in the witness box AT
the outset of her testimony she told
the court she had been III for almost
an entire night and her doctor this
morning did not think she would be
able to attend because she was on the
verge of a nervous collapse. She re-
quested to make statement on all the
payment of the Knole residence of the
| Sackvilles through herself She said 1t
was impossible to go through the
checks
| This is the seventh day of the trial
and the Judge announced that Lady
Sackville would not be required much
longer, an indication that her exam
ination would be short
Lady SackviIle Examined
Attorney Smith examined Lady Sack
vile as to incidents related by the Scott
family to show the influence she exer-
| cised over the testator. Lady Sackville
however. said the.incidents were great
| ly exaggerated. She emphatically de-
with Scott to induce him to leave her
any money. When 1t came to the in
cident of Sir Benjamin Franklin the
physician of Sir John Scott, refusing
her admittance to Scott's sick room
witness said Lady Franklin got S25, ,o00
under Scott's will
Lady Franklin is not in the same
position as | am" said Lady Sack
vile haughtily. "She has not such a
large house as Knole park to keep up
| as trust to the nation"
"She is respectable and kind WON
an, though" Attorney Smith ironically
| remarked.
| oh, yes replied Lady Sackville
but perhaps you do not know that
knole park is larger than Hampton
Court palace
Referring to a letter in which Rev
Mr., Scott had mentioned the Sackville
family as locusts, the witness said she
was rather amused than annoyed but
did not think 1t was a nice letter for
a clergyman to write.
Lady Sackville denied that she had
ever been called on ''the earthouake,'
several years by the servants That
name, she said, had been invented bv
the SCOTS.
Lord Sackville Testifies
Lord SaclSvilie then testified he had
| used no undue influence on Sir Jobn
7coit ana had seen no signs of his
wi1e doing so. He said he approved
| of his wife's friendship with Scott. Miss
Sackvllle gave similar evidence, say
ing Scott had told her Lady Sack
vile was more to him than anybody
else.
Lord Sackville said that besides the
sl25,OV0 given to his wife, Sir John
Scott gave him $4,000 to purchase a
town residence. Then there was s19o.
| ooO to pay off the mortgage on KnoIe
park and $4,000 for the upkeep of a
motor cars
After other evidence concerning the
friendship between Scott and the Sack
Ville family, the hearing was adjourned
until Monday when argument will be
made.
Attorney Smith asked when she had
formed the idea that Scott had "dangled
before our weary eyes for 10 years
ms fortune quotation from letter
read IN court yesterday, witness said,
ABOUT two years before Scotts
death when he always wanted to be
with us. l got so sick of it, you know
You do get sick of it when YOU are
told every day that he is going to
change his will"
She said she wrote Scott that 1t was
unfair to promise for IL years and
then change it all, adding. Il say very
little although you treated me very
unkindly and after all your promises
leave me In the lurch. If you have any
sense or Justice you will think about
the child. You have always given her
the hope. that everything was rose col
ored, DO not be unjust and unfair ;,
| Lady Sackville, after five hours And
haif ON the witness stand was ex-