BARRISTER'S STRANGE WILL
lu Ins will Mr Samuel Harrington Tristram, of Worthing, barrister, who left±!l9,Coo., 'wrote : " 1 beg th;it mv hody may not he interred in a leaden enmn or deep in the earth. 1 have no preference for consecrated ground, and I. should wish to he buried in a wicker basket, on a slope of the South Downs, facing the south and the sum." As the testator had a fear of being buried or cremated alive he directed that a main arterv be opened after his apparent death. In a codicil he desired that his medical attendant should give a writfen certificate that he had severed the jugular vein. Mr Tristram also expressed a wish that "no solicitor, stockbroker, stockjobber, or any future husband of my wife shall be appointed trustee of mv will.'"
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Evening Star, Issue 17284, 24 February 1920, Page 10
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135BARRISTER'S STRANGE WILL Evening Star, Issue 17284, 24 February 1920, Page 10
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