FORTUNE IN RUSTY SAFE
When Mrs. Eliza Ogden, aged seventy-one, a Bradford widow, died last year, she left £ 16,898 —or so everyone thought. But in January her daughter, Eva, found in the cellar a rusty old safe. In it was £19,900 in notes. This was the story told at Leeds Assizes when Miss Ogden sought probate of her mother's' will. She was opposed by two brothers, Joseph and Herbert, and a sister, Mrs.' Jowett, who alleged that their mother was not of sound mind, memory, or understanding. Mr. C. Paley Scott, K.C., for Miss Eva Ogden, said Mrs. Ogden left £1000 to be divided equally between five of her children, and the whole of the residue of her estate to his client. Joseph Ogden left home in 1906 and settled in Bray, County Wicklow. Herbert left during the war, got married and never returned. In 1922 Mr. and "Mrs. Ogden entered into a document in which they set out all they were prepared to do for Joseph. He was to receive Is only as his share of their estate. "They had heard of the expression 'cut off with a shilling," and thought that unless they gave him a shilling it wpuld not be legal," said counsel.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 126, 30 May 1935, Page 11
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