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Show BEQUEATHS FORTH TO SUFFRAGE CAUSE Baroness de Bazus Leaves Vast Sum to Aid Fight for Ballot. By International Xews Service. NEW YORK, Sept. 27. Suffragist circles were thrown into a flutter of excitement ex-citement today by the report that the Baroness de Bazus, who was Mrs. Frank Leslie and who died on September IS last, left nine-tenths of her estate, estimated esti-mated at J2, 000,000, to the cause. According to the report, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the International Interna-tional Woman Suffrage alliance, has been named lo direct the expenditure. Mrs. Cntt admitted today at her home that she had been notified that such a bequest had bpen left by the baroness, but said she did not know the amount. Whether Mrs. Catt personally or the suffrage organization has been residuary legatee could not be learned today. Total individual bequests are said to have been less than $200,000. Tbe largest, it is said, was bestowed upon Mrs. T. H. Wrenn, niece and nearest of kin to the baroness. Mrs. Wrenn, it is understood, received $50,000. Mrs. Wrenn lives in Brooklyn. To rumors ru-mors that she intends contesting the will could not be confirmed. Miss Mattie Sheridan, one of the baroness bar-oness de Bazus's intimate friends, well known as a writer and club woman, has been notified that $5000 w.as bequeathed , her. "I do not believe that the baroness left, as murh as $2,000,000," said Miss Sheri-' dan. "Although she never ppoke of such : matters. I believe her fortune amounted to about $1,000,000." ' i Miss Sheridan said she did not believe be-lieve the baroness had shown a very pronounced pro-nounced interest in suffrage, but declared she was friendly with Mrs. Frederick Nathan and other suffrage leadeis. The fact that Mrs- Leslie Is said to have drawn up a new will on May 23 last mav be an indication that she had bo-come bo-come an ardent suffragist but a comparatively com-paratively short time before her death. |