£17,000 IN WOODEN LEG
Four-Year Struggle lor " an Estate NEW YOBK, Dec. 27. A four-year struggle for an estate including a wooden leg worth more than , £17,000 was revealed - by papers filed iii New York Surrogate's Oourt. The leg belonged to Mr Frank Laikin, who died in. Yienna in 1929 under an assumed name. His American ■widow finally convinced the authorities that she was entitled to his property. When she arrived in New York, it was found to include a wooden leg. A sale of the assets was about to be held when ti a Polish Gonsul, who was advising Mrs Laikin and who had lost a leg in the war, decided to see whethei; Laikin's peg-leg would fit him. In trying it on, he accidentally pressed a hidden spring, and, to his astonishment, eighty-eight 1000-dollar notes popped out.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 81, 29 December 1937, Page 8
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