Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1912 — TRAMP LEFT HER A FORTUNE [ARTICLE]

TRAMP LEFT HER A FORTUNE

Marshall McMurran Remembered Servant Girl Who Gave Him a "Bnack” With $40,000. Petersburg, Ind.—Several years ago a tramp appeared at the kitchen in which Maggie Drain was working snd asked for something to eat. The family in which she was employed as a servant protested, but she gave the mao his breakfast and an hour later he returned with a paper which he handed to her, charging her to keep iL It proved to be giving to the girl the property of Marshall M»Murran at his death. ' McMurran owned a farm in an adjoining county, and when he died •* year ago the document was presented and claim to bis property made. The relatives of McMurran sougbt to break the will, but it was recently sustained by the court-and Miss Drain will get about $40,000.