STORY OF BIG LEGACY
STATEMENT AND DENIAL When William Derrick Wordsworth, of Bleak House. Shinficld, Berkshire, was charged at Beading with not having paid his railway fare a police officer stated that he was reported to have refused a £IO,OOO legacy which carried with it the condition that he did not marry the girl who was now his wife. It was alleged that Wordsworth and his wife travelled from Beading to Paddington on June II with cheap day tickets, returning on June 20, when Wordsworth tendered the expired halves of the original tickets, the dates of which had apparently been clumsily altered. When challenged by the ticket collector Wordsworth denied altering the dates of the tickets, and said that they were not the tickets he had given up. He was fined £2 and £3 costs. It was reported last April that Mr Wordsworth —a great-great-grandson of the poet—had sacrificed a legacy of £IO,OOO by marrying when he was 23 instead of waiting until he was 25. The family solicitors afterwards denied that Mr Wordsworth had sacrificed a legacy of £IO,OOO by his marriage.
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Evening Star, Issue 21825, 14 September 1934, Page 2
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183STORY OF BIG LEGACY Evening Star, Issue 21825, 14 September 1934, Page 2
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