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WILL WRITTEN ON EGG.. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, November 24. The Probate Court ruled against the egg-shell will. It found that the handwriting was Barnes’s, but that it could not be accepted as a testamentary disposition. It appeared to be about as grotesque an act as was possible for any man who was engaged in the serious undertakings of life. “Mag, everything I possess.—J.B.” This was written in indelible pencil on an eggshell and constituted perhaps one of the strangest wills ever exhibited in the Probate Court. The widow of John Barnes, ship’s pilot, said she found the eggshell on top of a wardrobe after her husband’s death.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12614, 26 November 1926, Page 11
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112NOT VALID New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12614, 26 November 1926, Page 11
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