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AN EXTRAORDINARY WILL.

The announcement lias been made by Mrs W. Buch, widow of a wealthy lawyer who died recently at St. Louis (U.S.A.), that she prefers money to suicide. She had entered into a compact to die at the same time as her husband, who was very eccentric. The will of, the deceased lawyer cut his widow off with tho American equivalent of the traditional shilling. Ho left his entire estate, consisting of valuable building sites in tho city of St. Louis and mineral lands in the State of Missouri, to her children. To one daughter ho bequeathed the MSS. of twentyfive plays and several works of fiction, with tho provision that they are to bo published after his death. Tho deceased disinherited his widow in these terms;— I have made no provision herein for my second wife, Ella Buch, as there is a compact between us that we shall die together when the time arrives. Should she, however, not comply with her agreement, then she can avail herself of tho ample provisions made by the statutes of Missouri for such cases.

Mrs Buch decided not to die, and declares that she will contest the will which deprives her of her share of the estate.

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Evening Star, Issue 14572, 22 May 1911, Page 7

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AN EXTRAORDINARY WILL. Evening Star, Issue 14572, 22 May 1911, Page 7

AN EXTRAORDINARY WILL. Evening Star, Issue 14572, 22 May 1911, Page 7

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