A Curious Will Case.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 236, 7 January 1888, Page 3

A Curious Will Case.

A curious case of international law is now being tried in the London courts. Som c five years since a man named John Goldenberg died ab Wiesbaden, in Germany, leaving a vast fortune of some 4,000,000 florins, the principal part of which he bequeathed to two London Hospitals, allowing his wife but £500 a year, and that so long as she remained unmarried. Thi3 eccentric man was of Jewish origin, born in Roumania, and accustomed from his earliest days to extreme poverty. Disgusted with his surroundings, he decided to abandon those scenes of struggle and misery and to seek his fortune in the East. Journeying through Turkey, Persia, and the- East Indies, he finally took service with the King of Burmah, who became attached to the intelligent young European. He obtained some valuable concessions, and by degrees amassed his millions. Becoming wearied with life in the East, he returned to Europe and took up hi 3 abode at Vienna, where he lived like lenabob for two or three seasons, and then ft for London, where, making the acquaintance of the famous pianist, Fraulein Moeller, he married her after a short courtship. Four weeks later he was dead, leaving behind him the will already mentioned, the somewhat curious terms of which, no doubt, can be accounted for by his former unfortunate experiences. The millions are lying in London, their interest accumulating, while a lawsuit is being carried on by the wife and relatives of the testator, who according to Roumanian law had no right to dispose of his property in the way adopted by John Goldenberg.