STRANGE WILL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12528, 13 April 1935, Page 5

STRANGE WILL

DISPOSAL OF £350,000 ESTATE

SOME BENEFICIARIES NOT KNOWN- TO TESTATOR. A -IT yV’Y' OTHERS DEAD; (U-P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright.) (Rec. April 12, 7 p.m.) ; . WORCESTER (Afass.) Apri? 11. One of the longest and strangest wills even recorded in. this State was filed today. It is a 110-page document, disposing of the £350,000 cstate of Albert AY hi tin, whose family founded YVhitinsville, and owns manufactories there. Air AVhltin, who as a bachelor went to Paris in 1914 for a brief visit, but never returned, dying there last month. Ilfs will distributes l>is estates among scores of persons, some of whom were not known personally to him. The beneficiaries range from Lord Howard, cx-Ambassador for Britain, to the gardener of the AYhitin home. Many of the beneficiaries are dead. Lord Howard receives £2OOO, anil his wife and children £SOOO altogether. ' ' An impoverished 'English poet re, eeives £IOOO. and £2OOO is bequeathed to Air AVhitin's nurse, who cfcccl three years ago. The largest bequest is tc his niece, £BO,OOO. and with an additional £SO - 000 if she returns to live in Air AYhitin's old home in Alassachusetts. 1 , '■■ZJ+k 1 ;: 1 .;. «