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Show A FAKE LEGACY. The Woman Who Refused $30,000 1 to Become Catholic. Our readers will remember the daily newspaper dispatch, published about a month ago, in which'Mrs.. Lucinda Gan-son, Gan-son, of Davenport, la., was quoted as having asserted that she had refused a legacy of $30,000 on condition that I she become a Catholic. That dispatch was published in all the daily papers of the country.' There have been later developments which the daily papers outside of Davenport ' have ignored, says the Messenger of that city. It appears that Mrs. Ganson is in the habit of having 'fortunes left to her. Her friends are glad that phe has had the refusal of another ' fortune and sorry that she had refused it. of course; and sorry, moreover, that the amount of the fortune that she is refusing is diminishing. Mrs. Ganson's latest windfall recalls to Postmaster Bryson and his staff an incident that may account for the fact that in spite of the several fortunes; that Mrs. Ganson isays have been left her. she is not apparently enjoying the' fruits of any of them. -. Some time ago the lady called at the local post office and announced the disappearance of.52",000 in bonds thac she had entrusted to the mails to send to another party in Davenport who; wanted to see them. The matter was' taken up and looked into, to a certain extent, but before the investigation had gone very far Mrs. Ganson called it. off, saying she had rather lose the $25.- ; 000 than have her- relatives bothered j with her financial affairs. |