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Show FATE OF A FORTUNE. Insane Woman's Property Becomes the Basis of Litigation, San Francisco. Whotjior Mrs. Mary Voorman, an Inmate for the last 33 years of tho Stockton Insane asylum and n woman more than 70 years old, shall retain In hor name $1,250,000, or that tho greater portion of that sum shall bo divided among her six adult children, Is the question that will come up before Superior Judge Mogan soon. Ilehlnd the suit Is a story of a $2,000,000 estate drifting about In tho current of tho law for eight yoars. And tho pathetic central flguro In tho controversy con-troversy Is a woman halo and hearty In hor body, but with a mind wrecked and blank In tho void world In which sho lives sho knows not whether sho has $1,000,000 or a cent, but tho energies of the courts aro to decide whether sho shall havo a greattr or lesser percentage of fortune about which sho knows nothing, Fifty years ago Henry Voorman marrlod Mary Duncan, tho daughtet of a very wealthy property holder ol that time. Mrs. Voorman Inhorlted largo Interests from her father, and II Is said that that Inheritance was the basis of tho Voorman fortune, which now amounts to about $2,000,000. Thlrty-threo years ago Mrs. Voor man went Insane, and was committed to tho Stockton asylum. In 1879 hoi' husband was appointed guardian ol hor property. ' |