FORTUNE IN WOODEN LEG
ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERY CLAIM MADE BY WIDOW NEW YORK, Dec. 27. A four-year struggle for an estate including a wooden leg worth more than £17,000 was revealed by papers filed in the New York Surrogate’s Court. The leg belonged to Frank Laikin, who died in Vienna in 1929 under an assumed name. His American widow finally convinced the authorities that she was entitled to Ris property. When she arrived in New York it was found to include a wooden leg. A sale of the assets was about to be held when the Polish Consul, who was advising Mrs. Laikin and who had lost a leg in the war, decided to see whether Laikin’s peg-leg would fit him.
In trying it on, he accidentally pressed a hidden spring, and, to his astonishment, eighty-eight 1000-dollar notes popped out.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19519, 29 December 1937, Page 5
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