and on being reversed at a mirror, showed clearly the words: “… erything of which I die possessed I leave to my beloved husband Alfred Ing …” This placed beyond question the fact that the destroyed will had been in favour of the deceased lady’s husband. Japp then produced the charred fragment of paper recovered from the grate, and this, with the discovery of the beard in the attic, completed his evidence.
But Sir Ernest’s cross-examination was yet to come.
and on being reversed at a mirror, showed clearly the words: “… erything of which I die possessed I leave to my beloved husband Alfred Ing …” This placed beyond question the fact that the destroyed will had been in favour of the deceased lady’s husband. Japp then produced the charred fragment of paper recovered from the grate, and this, with the discovery of the beard in the attic, completed his evidence.
But Sir Ernest’s cross-examination was yet to come.
