The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-09-06
Wills That Caused
Delight and Pain

One OF the most curious and perhaps
OF queen .Austrigilda consort of King
Gohtran. who cnjoined her. husbnn nd
TO Stay and bury in the same grave
with herself the two physicians who
had attended her ma jesty during her
last illness
1t was u crafty burgher of Berlin
who hit upon an unrivalled plan for
trlcking his heirs. This old man was
a miser and suspected every one he
knew OF being Il legacy hunter. as
il was common information that he
had quite u sum of money. Upon the
old mans death his will was opened
and conveyed this surprising message :
Every member of my family who
does not attend my funeral will re-
ceiye $500
y codicil was appended to the in
strumcnt, With instructions that this
| only be opened after the funeral. Only
che old lady Of all the msers relatives
| followed his body to the grave She did
| this despite the forfeiture of $500 pro
! Nided in the will.
After the funeral the codicil was
|. opened. 1t directed that the whole
| estate remaining after the payment of
! $500 to each relative who did not at
| tend the burial should be paid to those
Who did go. The old lady was the only
| one who had shown enough respect
! Tor the dead man to attend his fun
! erai, SO she came into all Of his
| money.
There was curious case III Michi-
| gan. where II wealthy decedent left
| 100000 to build u home for INDECENT
| old women. But instead of INDECENT
the maker of the will wrote "indig-
| nant.' AS it would have been possible
| to find Il great many indignant old
ladies', and hard to decide between
their claims, the money finally went
| to relatives
Wills prescribing how children,
wives and husbands shall marry are
| commons Perhaps the hardest CON
| ditlons ever imposed upon any one
by this kind of an arrangement were
set forth in the will of "a wealthy
Philadelphia man who left a large
| fortune to three children. But he pro-
Vided that no one of them could
| marry without the consent of the other
| two, unless they sacrificed their share
| IN the estate. 1t was thus put in the
power OF two persons to ruin the hap
piness of Il third or compel this third
person to give up wealth.
There was II good dame in Lisbon.
Portugal who believed in the trans
migration of souls. She affirmed that
the spirit of her late husband had
found dwelling place in the body OF
| hers favorite rooster. She had !,
gorgeous home built for the rooster,
| and all the servants were instructed
to pay particular attmention to the
wants of their MASTER When any
OF the hens were caught flirting with
the rooster, they were promptly killed,
for the old lady was extremely jeal-
Gus and apparently knew her late hus-
bands weakness. She called the roost-
er Pedro and wept oyer his galantries,
while tearfully pleading with him to
mend his ways. But as the old woman
said, she was thankful for one thing
she could manage him better in the
transAgrated state than when he was
in the flesh.
Then the old lady died. Her will was
opened and filled her relatives with
rage. 1t left all to Pedro the rooster.
In this dilema one of the rightful heirs
stepped out of the house and quietly
wrung Pedro's neck. AS the legal
heir was thus put out OF the way, the
natural heirs inherited the property.
One cannot but wonder what became
| of Pedro in his next state.