A STRANGE WILL
RICH MAN'S BEQUESTS
SCORES OF BENEFICIARIES (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) WORCESTER (Massachusetts), April 11. (Received April 12, at 7 p.m.) One of the longest and strangest wills ever recorded in this State was filed today. It is a 110-page document disposing the 1,750,000-dollar estate of Albert Whitin, whose family founded Whitinsville and owns manufactories there. Whitin, who was a bachelor, went to Paris in 1914 for a brief visit and never returned, dying there last month. The will distributes the estate among scores of persons, some of whom were not known personally to him. The beneficiaries range from Lord Howard, a former British Ambassador in the United States, to the gardener of the Whitin home. Many of the beneficiaries are dead.
Lord Howard receives 10,000 dollars and his five children 25,000 dollars altogether. An impoverished English poet receives 5000 dollars, and 10,000 dollars is bequeathed to Whitin's nurse, who died three years ago, aged 103. The largest bequest is to a niece.. It amounts to 400,000 dollars, with an additional 250,000 dollars if she returns to live in Whitin's old home in Massachusetts.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22546, 13 April 1935, Page 13
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188A STRANGE WILL Otago Daily Times, Issue 22546, 13 April 1935, Page 13
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