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Show A Uarlng Trick. "One of the most daring tricks I ever came across, " 6aid H. F. Farrell, a New I York attorney, "was in the case of a man who deliberately impersonated a lawyer's clerk and persuaded a very sick man to sign a will without reading it, and which disposed of his property in direct "opposition to his wishes. It was a case of a family dispute, and the old gentleman, who was quite wealthy, had decided to disinherit his ei'dest son and leave the property to a y.ourifXCT one. B?lnywatucd toy Ma doctor.rnatrrltniact" only a day or two more to Uve, he sent instructions to his attorney to draft his will, and send it down promptly for sig-nature. sig-nature. "While the lawyer was preparing the document a representative of the eldest son arrived with a paper, which he said was the will prepared by the sick man's attorney. The will was signed without hesitation and duly witnessed, and when two hours later the lawyer's clerk arrived ar-rived with the genuine will he was not allowed to enter the house, being warned off the premises by the housekeeper. On his return to the office his employer saw at once that a fraud had been committed, commit-ted, and he hastened to the house to have it set right In the meantime, however, the sick man had become unconscious, un-conscious, and he died without being able to execute a will after his own wishes. The bogus will was upset, but the fraud could never be sufficiently proved to convict the man suspected of concocting it, and he inherited quite a large sum of the money as next of kin. " St. Louis Globe-Democrat |
