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TOOGOOD WILL SUIT. Startling Evidence. TESTATRIX NOT ALLOWED TO SEE HER MOTHER ALONE. ,Plaintiff Prevented Speaking to Her Dying Sister. In the Probate Division to-day Mr. Justice Buoknill and a. special jury resumed the bearing: of the case in which the will of the 25th of March, 1878, of Florence Fanny Toogood, a sister in the Convent of St. Mary- at-Croes, Shoreditch, is in dispute. It will be remembered that the plaintiffs in the suit, Mrs. Emily Henrietta Toogood wnd Miss Helen Cornelia Toogood, of Clevedon, Somerset, sisters of the deceased, alleged tnat the will was procured by undue influence, exercised by the Mother Superior of the convent. Mies ifaoinaih Skinner, now deceased, to whom the property, amounting to £7,rxXJ, was bequeathed, and the spiritual director," the ltev. Henry Daniel Nihill, under circum- StoCWloes already reported. Miss Tmily Henrietta Toogood, whose evi- dence, was begun on Friday, when the case waa adjourned till to-day, was now further examined. She said that when she saw her sister, the testatrix, she was only allowed to speak to her in the presence of other siatere of the convent. Her mother paid JBM a year to the conveut while teetaArix was there. On one occasion her mother had a serious illness, and witness requested that her sister, Florence Fanny Toogood, should be allowed to leave the con- vent to see her. She came, accompanied by another Sister of the convent. Did you desire tha.t your sister should go upstairs to see you? mother alone?—Yes. What was said?—The Sister demurred. Did you object to the other Sister going to your mother's room?—I did. Was your mother well enough to see two persons?—She was not. Witness said that in April, 1895, she received a letter from Miss Skinner, stating that her sister was ill. When she got there she found her sister in a dying state. Mother Monica (Miss Skinner) and another nun were in the room, and she could not get very near to her sister, because the nun stood in her way. Asked if she did not endeavour to speak to her sister alone, witness said, I did not ask to because I knew it would be useless." Her sieter died on the 18th of April, 1895.' It was some time afterwards tha-t she knew ber sister had made a will by which the money left her passed to the convent. She did not know at the time of her sister's death tha t she COULD CONTEST THE WILL. I In cross-examination, witness said she had received her share of the money left under her father's will, which passed on the death of the mother, in 1906, amounting to £ 7,000. It was not a fact that for a long time before she took the step her sister had contemplated entering the convent. Mr. Hume Williams, K.C., for defendants, read a letter written by the mother, in which she referred to The bitter agony of parting I WITH MY FIEST-BORN, I and added- But I have lonk known this step has been uppermost in my child's thoughts. He also read a letter written at the time by the testatrix to Mr. Nihill, in which she said: This is no new idea. I have had it in my mind more or less all my life. I even mentioned it to my mother a year ago, amd she was then greatly distressed and upset. Witness said her sister never told her about it. Witness said her sister was always of a deeply religious temperament. For some time her sister was porteress of the convent. She did not know that in that capacity she received visitors and entertained people who called, amid that the role as"to silence was not obeerved in the reception-room: At the time of the ceremony, wihen her sister became a professed sister, witness said the bell tolled. Counsel: I put it to you that the ceremony wae made as joyful and cheerful as could be, that during the ceremony she was crowned with flowers, and HAD A BRIDAL CAKE, I which she cut up and distributed. Witness: She was under a pall first. And after the ceremony was over all the sisters and their friends dined together?— Yes. Witness -said she sa-w a document" !>ut off the altar with her sister's habit, but she did not know it wae a will. She thought it might be. Witness afterwards became an associate of the convent, and sent flowers there, and after her sister's death helped to put up a bronze tablet to her sister. She had heard since that the property comprsed in tlhe will was transferred by Mias Skinner to the trustees of the convent in July, 1896. (Proceeding.)

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