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Show DECLARES PRIEST PHID $50,000 TO PLAMONDON TO MSRRY HIS NIECE CHICAGO, Oct. 13. Charles A. Plamondon said at his residence last night that Mrs. Planiondon's right to the legacy in Father Makin's will was unquestioned that the property really belonged to Mrs.' Planiondon's father, and that the priest held it in trustfor her under an unusual ante-nnptial agreement made by her father. ROCK ISLAND, 111., Oct. 13. That the late Father Thomas Mackin said he had given $50,000 to C, A. Plamondon of Chicago to marry his present wife, who is a niece of the priest, was the statement made by Mrs. Mary Crum-' 'mie, wife of a, nephew of Mackin, n the stand in Circuit court here yester-dav. yester-dav. Mrs. Crummie was a witness in a contest which has been brought by a pumber of the disinherited heirs to break the priest's will, which disposed ' ' - of an estate valued at $200,000. . She is not a party to the case, but her children are. Atttorney M. M. Sturgeon, for 'the contestants, asked her if she recollected any conversation with Father Mackin at a certain period seme years ago. Her reply was: "Why, he' said, in her presence (referring (re-ferring to Mrs. Grace Mackin, one of the beneficiaries of the will,), that I wasn't afraid to work, nor I wasn't afraid to marry a poor man, but .that he had to buy men for his two nieces, and that he gave Plamondon over $50,000.". Father Mackin made his money in business in early life, and while he was connected with the church his estate grew. At the time' the will was drawn the nearest surviving relative was Mrs. Catherine McArdle, a sister, who died, it is claimed, since the present case has been on ' trials due, it is claimed, to overexcitement. , Among the other relatives are Mrs. Plamondon of Chicago and Mrv Thomas Thom-as "H." DoJlv of '.this city, nieces,' and Mrs. Grace Mackin, widow of a nephew. And for a number of years before his death the housekeeper for the priest. The three nioces were near the eld man in his last days, and to them he left his estate, Mrs. Plamondon being willed about a third, and the greater portion of the remainder going to the others. The will was drawn while the testator testa-tor was on his death bed a year ago. The contest was begun on the ground that the priest was of unsound mind j in his last days, and that influence was exerted to prevent his recognizing ether relatives. |