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Show THE DAVIS WILL CASE- Tht AriumauM r Xun In I'roitrest. Ia-Kroll Ia-Kroll Will (k ToclT. lilTTi:, Sept. 4. In tlm laie will can yesterday Judge D.xon opened for tlie proponents. After thanking the court and jury for the attention so Nr given tha case and urgiug the jury to bt I guided by their own couvictious and j not decide the case without duo and j careful deliberation he reviewed the testimony relating to the early part of the case which touched principally upon tho quosliuu of whorj tho will was written. He was followed by Attorney Myers for the contestant, who reviewed the testimony relating to tha publication of the will ' tiy Mr. Davis. 1 also reviewed re-viewed the testimony regarding the handwriting of the will, bringing cut ihe peculiarities mentioned by the witnesses of the capital letters and tha singular mann.T of dotting the "i's"' in thn will. He also mentioned tho fact '.hat the paper on which the instrument instru-ment was written hud been calendared and carbonized in order to give it the I nppc artince of ago, concluding with the ttmark that, "the document docs not slow a stii'jia honest mark of age." Colonel Sanders fol'owed. referring chiefly to th testimony of the experts on handwriiing, ; aporaud inK. Before ttiu conclusion of his argument the court adjourned. |