Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1882 — Strange History of a Will. [ARTICLE]

Strange History of a Will.

One has heard of wills written on bed-posts, concealed in hay-lofts and flower pots, and other possible and impossible pl ices, but probably no will has ever passed through stranger vicissitudes than one admitted to probate by Sir James Hannen. The testator was an engineer on board a channel steamer and made his will giving everything to his wife, and gave the will to her. Some time lifterward they had a quarrel, during which she tore the will up and threw the pieces into the fire. The husband picked up the pieces and put them into an envelope labeled “poison,” but said he would make a new one. However, several years afterwaid he died of small-pox on his steamer, and,on his clothes being se irched before burning, the envelope with the pieces of the will inside it was luckily found and given to his wife. This brand plucked from the burning has now bee i pieced together and will be deposi.ed at Somerset House; a lesson to all time to

wives not to lose their tempers too far if they do not wish also to lose their husbands’ property, or to save it only by a lawsuit. — Pall Mall Gazette.