£200 TO INTERNEE
MILLIONAIRE'S WILL
.Mr Jack Barnato Joel, the financier and racehorse owner, who left £3,634,496, bequeathed £200' to his barber, Harry Altfuldisch, now in- 1 lerned in the Isle of Man, states the Overseas Daily Mail..
Harry Altfuldisch has been in England since the last war. He acted as valet to Mr Joel, and visited him at 6 o'clock every morning before opening his shop.
His shop is closed now, for Harry nas. been away for nearly a year. Said a friend, "That £200 will cheer him up a lot."
Death duties on the fortune amount to £1,666,929. Joel made his millions out of Rand gold, South African diamonds, finance, and a breezy personality.
And his racehorses made more money for liirn. He won all the classic races. His Sunstar and his Humorist both won the Derby.
They used to say on the race-* courses: "Mr Joel cannot lose money." But if Jack Barnato Joe? could not lose money, he could give It away. £1000 to Groomi. I'll his will he left sums from £100 to £1000: to servants:. Many of the lucky employees live Vn the tiny hamlet of Ghildwickbury In the heart of the Hertfordshire countryside which surrounds Mr Joel's mansion, Childwick.
Even now some of them have no Idea of Iheir good fortune.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 145, 22 August 1941, Page 5
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