A Strange Will.
One has heard- ■■'■'pi. written on bedposts, concealed iji haylofts and flower pots, ansv *>ther.\ possible and impossible placeSj but ' (says a London paper of October: l"Oth:) probably no will has passed through stranger vicissitudes than one admitted last week to probate by jSir James Hannen. The testator was an engineer on board. ChannelistJeatrier, and 'made; his will, gj^in^e^ry thing to his .wife, apd gave the wiirto her. Spine time' afterwards they had a quarrel, during' which she tore the will up and threw ths pieces into, the BYe; The, husband ; pickeWup <tne pieces a'iid p.ut tbe,m : int© anted velope labelled «' Poison," 'buli^s'everaPyeaw afterwards he died of smallpox on his < steamer, an d on " his ; clotties " bd"ing searched before" bornintg, = the envelope with the pieces of the : will inside it w^B luckily found and' given to his wife. : bran^-'pla'^e'd' ; irom-th^btti?diag has now' been pieced 'together, and will be deposited at Somerset House— a lesson to all time to wives not to jo.se & their tempers too far if they dq not wish f also to lose their, husband's property for to save if only by a lawsuit.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 65, 9 February 1883, Page 2
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189A Strange Will. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 65, 9 February 1883, Page 2
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