Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1894 — Pech’s Queer Will. [ARTICLE]

Pech’s Queer Will.

Chicago Daily News. James Pech’s last will and testaneat, hurriedly scrawled with a ead pencil on a torn sheet of gro:er’s paper a moment before he flung aimself from the top of a lumber pile into the stagnant depths of the Chicago river, yesterday, will be inly partly carried out. The reason Is because his friends say the document affords conclusive proof that She man was insane when he wrote It. This is a copy of the paper, which the officials in the Coroner’s jftice say is one of the strangest documents of the kind ever penned: “Last will and testament of James Pech: I bid good-bye to all my Bohemian and Polish friends in C|iicairo. I bear ill will toward none. To my father in the old country I leave the sum of S2OO, and to my bride that was to be I leave the same amount. I want a lot which Town io be sold, and the proceeds expend?d in giving me the finest burial possible, I want a fine coffin. My body Didst be taken to a Roman Catholic church, and services held. After I am buried I want my grave decorated with lanterns and candles. I want little girls to come and sing on lop of it. Let there be a band of music and beer. I want a headstone that must cost SSOO. Have my last wishes carried out.”