CURIOUS DISCOVERIES OF AN HEIRESS.
Much amusement was created recently at Nogent-sur-Marne, near Paris, by a race in which all the competitors were people with wooden legs. Some eccentric person in the neighborhood had offered substantial cash prizes to the winners. Among the competitors was a woman, one Mdlle. Collet. She did not win a prize, but her boldness in challenging her male competitors has not gone unrewarded. It happened that a lawyer in the south of France read an account of the affair in a newspaper, and it also happened that he had long been searching for a Mdlle. Collet with a wooden leg, who had had a legacy left her by a relative at Toulon. Several times he had advertised that if she would communicate with him she would " hear of something to her advantage," but there had been no response. As it seemed unlikely that there would be two Mdlle. Collets, both with a wooden leg, he concluded she must be the missing heiress. Accordingly he wrote to Nogent, and it turned out that it was as he suspected. The legacy will be paid as soon as the necessary ormalities are completed.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 4214, 19 June 1895, Page 5
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195CURIOUS DISCOVERIES OF AN HEIRESS. Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 4214, 19 June 1895, Page 5
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