A BLOT ON A WILL
A three-thousand-pound will with a blot of ink over the name of one of the beneficiaries is causing much legal argument. in the Sydney courts. When William Wright Yates, a pensioner, died, leaving £3OOO, his will was found between the leaves of a Bible. In it Mr. Yates left part of the estate to his landlady, part to a Gospel mission, ami the residue J o the someone whose mime began with the letters “Jo.” The rest of the name was obliterated under a deep blot of ink. Now a man mimed William David Jones is claiming the gift to “Jo . . Experiments with ultra-violet and in-fra-red rays have failed to reveal what lies under the blot.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 206, 28 May 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)
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121A BLOT ON A WILL Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 206, 28 May 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)
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