About Wills

There is very good reason to suspect, the New York Time says, that numbers of those persons who are supposed to die intestate do not so die in fact. In many inetances the wiH has been destroyed. The temptation offered is too strong to be resisted. There is a bright fire in the grate, and, standing beside it, the finder of a will peruses clause af ter clause only to discover that a sum infinitely less than he thinks his due has been bequeathed to him. Let bim drop the document into the flamea, and, ander the assnmed intestacy, a handsome slicemust be his. The solicitor may, indeed, produce a duplícate, which can be entered for probate, and the criminal may timo fiiul himself defeated. But what then ? The crime, at all events, cannot be brought home to him. It was the opinión of one of those most experienced in testaraentary suite that tiiis offence is frequently perpetrated.