Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1909 — ROOSEVELT REFUSES $10.000 [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT REFUSES $10.000

Declines to Accept Legacy Left by East Somerville, Mass., Recluse, Boston, Feb. 2.— President Roosevelt in a letter to the attorneys for the administrator, declares that under no condition will be accept a legacy of SIO,OOO left him by the last will of Benjamin Hadley, an East Somerville recluse, who died Dec. 16, 1907. The will disposed of property valued at $150,000 and provided for a legacy of “SIO,OOO to the president of the United States.”