MONEY CURSED
' CLAIMANTS FORFEIT £6OOO Because they believe a curse lies upon it, the heirs of a legacy of £6OOO refuse to touch the money. Recently Johann Jungmann, the village baker of Rakus, Czecho-Slovakia, received a lawyer's letter informihg him he was :the heir of a wealthy uncle who had always disliked him. Soon after he received the money Jungmann was taken ill and died>the next day. His eldest son, who, like his father, had always been exceptionally healthy; inherited his father's fortune, including the legacy of the uncle, and within a week he also fell ill and died.. The property has now been inherited by the younger son, but neither ho nor any other,, member of the family will touch the.'uncle's 1 legacy. It has accordingly been placed in chancery and will eventually revert to the State.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 June 1930, Page 6
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138MONEY CURSED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 June 1930, Page 6
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