A WIFE'S WILL
SWALLOWED BY HUSBAND. CURIOUS FORM OF RESENTMENT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, July 13. (Received July 14, at 5.5 p.m.) A tragi-comedy was disclosed in the prosecution of a mother and her son whc were charged with destroying the wil’ of the latter’s dead wife. Fraysee, a cattle dealer, and his mother went to a notary’s office to learn th© terms of his wife’s will. They were astonished to find that it contained a clause disinheriting Fraysee. In an angry scene the mother suddenly snatched, the will from the notary and gave it to her son, wbe crumpled it up, put it in his mouth and swallowed it before the astonished Lawyer was able to prevent him. Fraysee and his mother were arrested. —A. and N-Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19532, 15 July 1925, Page 7
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129A WIFE'S WILL Otago Daily Times, Issue 19532, 15 July 1925, Page 7
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