FORTUNE FOR A SHOPGIRL
Traulien Wardyss, a poor girl employer) as a saleswoman in a boot and sho« shop in.the small town of Kisujszallas, in Hungary, has just inherited a fortune of €20,000 in extraordinary circumstances (says the Vienna correspondent of the London Daily Mail), Herr Croney, an elderly bachelor, was among the customers at the shop, and expressed iildig.nation (it, the .small wages paid to her. liecently he entered the shop to make some small purchases, and said that he intended to make Fraulein Wardyss heiress to nil his property. She laughed. as she believed him to b« badly off, Ins clothes being shabby . Saying "I really mean it," he unfastened his on If, and laying it flat on the counter, drew out a fountain pen and wrote a will, lie called two apprentices to sign it, and having placed it. in his pocket, left the shop. A few minutes later lien Croney, m making a violent effort to avoid a motor car in the roadwav, over-strained his heart ami fell dead. Xext day Kraulein Wardyss was informed that hi« •state of rai.OOO was a! her di.-posal.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 55, 26 August 1911, Page 10
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188FORTUNE FOR A SHOPGIRL Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 55, 26 August 1911, Page 10
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