ECHO OF THE WARATAH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 43, 19 February 1913, Page 6

ECHO OF THE WARATAH.

INTERESTING WILL CASE. (Received 11.50 a.m.) London, February 18. In the Probate Court, Hayden. Erskine Starke claimed the revocation of a codicil of the will of Miss Maria Mattingley, of Kensington, bequeathing £7500 to Dr. Frederick Bryan, an Australian, who was Mias Mattingley’s grand nephew, and also £7500 to Mrs Starke, who was a passenger on the Waratah. Plaintiff alleges that Dr. Bryan unduly influenced the weak-minded testatrix, whose relations are chiefly in Australia. She died on the day the Waratah was supposed to have foundered. ' The codicil also left the residue of £IO,OOO equally between Bryan and Starke on the conditions that if. either predeceased testatrix the whole of the residue was to go to the survivor.