POOR GIRL'S FORTUNE.
INHERITANCE OF £26,000. Fraulein Wardyss, a poor girl employed as a saleswoman in a boot and shoe shop in the small town of Kisujszallas, in Hungary, has just inherited a fortune of £26,000 in extraordinary circumstances. Herr Croney, an elderly bachelor, was among the customers at the shop, and expressed indignation at the small wages paid to her. Recently he entered the shop to make some small purchases and said that he intended to make Fraulein Wardyss heiress to all his property. Shelaughed, as she believed him to be badly off, his clothes being shabby. Saying "I really mean it," he unfastened his cuff and laying it flat on the counter drew out a fountain pen and wrote a will. He called two apprentices to sign it, and having placed it in his pocket left the shop. A few minutes later Herr Croney in making a. violent effort to avoid a motor car in the roadway overstrained his heart and fell dead: Next day Fraulein Wardyss was informed that his estate ot £26,000 was &t her disposal,
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Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11, 11 August 1911, Page 6
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180POOR GIRL'S FORTUNE. Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11, 11 August 1911, Page 6
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