Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1918 — CUP OF COFFEE GIVEN TRAMP BRINGS $27,000. [ARTICLE]

CUP OF COFFEE GIVEN TRAMP BRINGS $27,000.

Man, Once Down and Out, Reward* Girl Who Befriended Him. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Mrs. Matti* Hannum of Vincennes Is today digesting the almost unbelievable fact that interest on a cup of hot coffee presented by her to a tramp thirty years ago amounts to joat $27,000. At the time she gave the tramp the cup of coffee Mrs. Hannum was a servant on a farm. The tramp’s name was Marshall MoMurran, who, having ceased being * tramp, died at Swanville a short time ago. The will by which he left his entire holdings to the woman who had befriended him was contested by his half-brothers and sisters, but the Indiana Supreme Court held the instrument valid. McMurran, after a youth of wandering, died on May 10, 1918, leaving /a win’which had been made twentyfive years before. It read: M I do this 7th day of September, 1888, will to Mattle Draim, that poor servant girl who gave me a good bite to eat and a hot cup of coffee when I yw weak and feverish from hunger and near ready to drop and the auld man she worked for was cursing her for giving it to me and ordering me out of the yard, and I do win all 1 have at my death, all the money or property I have shall be hers.” Mattie Draim is now Mrs. Hrinnum.