Awhile back I wrote about Leon Bly’s bad karma. During the contested estate hearings, I left out an interesting piece of information. Louise Wick was one of the five beneficiaries to Bly’s Estate. In a letter to the probate judge she stated initially Bly was going to leave a large sum of his estate to Malvena Gallatin. Bly’s housekeeper/nurse Edith Rebhan resented that notion since Gallatin was a “rich woman.” Rebhan also countered she would put in a claim for services as a professional nurse, day and night and at the rate of $18 per day, and this would consume most of the estate. Wick continued, “Nevertheless she [Rebhan] was bitter against the idea of Mrs. Gallatin coming in to anything.” As it turned Rebhan received the bulk of the estate and Gallatin nothing.
