[PW] Grace Singer

[Doty, Fadia]

This article is found in
http://www.hscpc.org/documents/ResurrectionHopeforthe21stcentury.doc
hopefully it gives some info to go on................
"Columnist L. M. Boyd recently described the amazing good fortune of a
man named Jack Wurm. In 1949, Mr. Wurm was broke and out of a job. One
day he was walking along a San Francisco beach when he came across a
bottle with a piece of paper in it. As he read the note, he discovered
that it was the last will and testament of Daisy Singer Alexander, heir
to the Singer sewing machine fortune. The note read, "To avoid
confusion, I leave my entire estate to the lucky person who finds this
bottle and to my attorney, Barry Cohen, share and share alike." 
According to Boyd, the courts accepted the theory that the heiress had
written the note 12 years earlier, and had thrown the bottle into the
Thames River in London, from where it had drifted across the oceans to
the feet of a penniless and jobless Jack Wurm. His chance discovery
netted him over $6 million in cash and Singer stock. How would you like
to have been making Mr. Wurm's footprints on that San Francisco beach?
What a find!"  

-----Original Message-----
From: burchell at telusplanet.net [mailto:burchell at telusplanet.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 10:55 AM
To: list at project-wombat.org
Subject: [PW] Grace Singer


Hi!
Several years ago while on a long drive, I heard a story on the car
radio, purporting to be true, concerning Grace Singer, the heiress to
the Singer Sewing Machine Company fortune. In 1936 she threw a bottle
containing a 
note into the Thames river from Westminster Bridge.The note stated that
whoever 
found the bottle would be entitled to one half of her
inheritance.Thirteen 
years later, in 1949, as improbable as it sounds, the bottle washed up
on a 
beach in San-Francisco. The supposition being that it had drifted
through the 
North-West Passage. It was found by an unemployed, 29 year-old
restaurant 
worker. After a prolonged trial his entitlement was upheld. I recently
related 
this story to some friends and met with some disbelief and some
questions. To 
refresh my aging memory and confirm the details, I "Googled" various
salient 
details into the search menu and received zero, zip, nada that in any
way 
related to the above story.  I felt sure that a story as dramatic as
this, if 
true, would be well represented. Once again I am relying on the
ever-faithful Wombats, who have never failed me, for help. Cheers Jim