New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-07
TO DWELL IN MAUSOLEUM
A Miser in Life, Old Maid Hoped
for Lovely Spirit Abode.
THE DISINHERITED OBJECT
Belief in Deathless Life Cited as
Proof Miss Bastian Was
Mentally Unsound.


| sued to set aside the probate Of the instru-
ment.
The contestants are Mrs. Emma Boelsen.
Of Grantwood. N. j; George Won Hofe, of
No 1S East sth street, and John Won
Hofe. OF No. 122 Elm street, Astoria, who
were cut eff with requests Of 81 each. The
estate Is valued at about $4,000.
The contention OF the contestants that
their half-Sfster was monomaniac is sup
ported by the testimony Of the physician
who treated her just before her death Her
mania had to do with the righteousness of
her life after DEATH
She was miser while she lived at No.
500 East seth street.
Tomb to Cost $4,000.
But in her will Miss Bastian provided for
the erection of $50 900 mausoIeum for her
body
Miss BaStian was a native of Germany.
For many years she was in the employ OF
Mrs. Marie Heine as companion. and she
inherited most of her estate from her en-
ployer.
She appointed John Weisheimer, q cousin.
and Helmer +. Boelsen her executors. She
Willed Weisheimer $500, and to his wife,
Margaret Weiskeimer. gave all her house
hold furnishings, said to have been Of little
value. Another $500 Request went to Marie
Boelsen. Miss Bastian explained her disin-
heritance Of her half brothers and sister
by saying:
Ever since my arrival in this country
many years ago, I have been treated with
abject scorn and derision by my said rela-
tives."
About $1,000 of Miss Bastian's property
was in the form of a plot in WoodlaWn
Cemetery. Often the old spinster took
friends to the cemetery and pointed out the
place where she would build a house Ito
live in after DEATH" for she believed that
she never would really die. She left that
plot to the cemetery corporation, in trust,
and another $1,000 in trust the income to
be used in keeping the plot in condition.
More Money for Cemetery.
Her iewelry, valued at about 5000, was
+o he converted into cash to form part or
the $4,000 residue to be used TO build the
mausoleum Any surplus was TO so to the
cemetery corporation to keep the mauso-
le,Irn in repair and for planting shrubs ana
flowers around it
Miss Bastian even indicated who was TO
build the tomb She insisted on the mauso-
she died at sea, and her body was not
| brought to land.
She also insisted on occupying a drawer
nv herself indicating the specific one she
desired.
This part of the will read:
IF is nv wish that my executors give
said James Ingles the preference in having
said nnausoleum built and erected. AS L
contemplate undertaking a trip TO Europe,
II is nv wish. and I hereby direct, that IN
case OF nv death at sea, and if my body
should not be brought to land, my execu-
tors should carry out the provision herein
contained for the building and erection OF
said nlausoleunl, and carry out the pro-
vision for the burial of the other persons
in said mausoleun, as provided for IN my
will.
I'm case of my death at sea as above
mentioned, l hereby direct my executors to
reserve for my body the middle drawer, or
catacon,b. located on the right hand SIDE
on entering the said mausoleum, and have
an Inscription made thereon containing my
name and date of birth and death, ana no
one Is to be placed in said place reserved
for me as aforesaid.
Miss Bastian appointed executors III ZIP
pelsheim. Germany, for her property thefe-
She divided this among the sons and
dauebters of Eva Stutzmann. in amounts
of 800 and LOO marks each, for the kind
treatment the testatrix received as child
from, Mrs. Stutzmann after her own mother
deserted her.
Her mother, it is said, was too poor to
s,nnort her and came TO this country to
obtain employment