Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-07-03
TITLED BRITISH IN
FIGHT FOR OLD
MANS WEALTH
Relatives Of Late Sir John M.
Scott Contest Bequest of
More Than Million to Lady
Sackville.


lBy Ieased Wire 60 Evening aers.i.l
London, July 3 3-The fight for the
millions. ths suit in which the rela-
tives Of the late sir John Murray
Scott are endeavorlng 10 have pro.
nounced Invalid on account OF alleged
undue Influence, the viii by which he
left tn bulk OF his fortune of $4,000.
600 TO Lady Sackviile. wis resumed
today In the probate. divorce ana ad-
miralty court
A. soon as the presiding Judge. Sir
Samuel Thomas Evans had taken Sis
seat on the bench lady Sackvllie re-
turned 60 the witness stand aud un-
der dircci examir alton by sir Edward
Carson. her counsel. resumed her ac-
count of her friendship with the bar1-
net She said Il was IN the spring of
1900 while she and the baronet were
driving together that sir John flrst
told her of his intention to leave har
si.000.0OO. lie told her now that his
mother was dead Lady Sackviie had
taken "a great place IN his life and
thai he was going to leave her the
$iO00. OO0. his furniture. his houses
at Bagatele. near Paris. az Lisbon
and indeed an except the houses In
London which he had left To his sis
tors and brothers.
Lady Sackviile swore she never saw
tho viii and did not know Il had been
made until much later. when sir John
spoke of revoking a. The witness
said she ana her family were referred
TO hy the SCOTS as "the locusts" al
though To her face they were charm
ing, She said Scott threatened To re-
woke his will on the slightest provocn-
ton. once when she could not lunch
with him he said: VERY we'll, ! viii
go and change my viii"
Afterward. however he said. You
little rascal. you know ! would never
90 that"
Under cross-examination Lady
Sackviile said she and her husband
had about $4,000 ysnr
Lady Snckviile said that her friend
shin with Sir John was platonic
one. when she first invited him To
Knole Park she did not know that he
WAS wealthy ana although her father
was embarrassed Il never occurred 20
her TO get money from him. she sue
ceeded. she said. In securing an the
plate belonging TO Knole Park which
WAS sold, except gold tea set. q
present from king George g.. "a the
first Duke of Dorset. which went 10
America. Il was valued az $4,000.
Lady Snckviile sobhed bitterly
when she was questioned about let
ter to "a friend in which she had said
scott Was making a new will leaving
everything he had dangled before mS
weary eyes for ten years away from
us." In torrent of rage she said u
was a most mons:rous thing for a so-
called friend Ia give this letter up.
she pointed our that further on IN
the letter she had written. "I am
very sorry to lose his friendship. as
friends are rare" II was some time
before the witness could compose
herself.
a. other times She kept the court
In roars Of laughter as when she de-
scribed Walter scott's nctions In
making love to her. ana In her MIN
licking Of the persons she mentioned
In the course Of her evidence She
insisted that Scott had left his rnuney
for knole Park ana not for her and
that the great link between Scott and
herself was their knowledge of arL