A BEQUEST REFUSED
MILLIONAIRE'S FUNERAL. HOSTILE DEMONSTRATION. United Press Associfition-By Eleotric Telegraph Copyright. PARIS, June 11. The legacy of two hundred thousand pounds left by M. Chauchard, proprietor of the Magasins du Louvre, to ex-President Loubet, as due to his signing the . decree Whereby M. Chauchard became a member of the Legion of Honour. M. Louhet has refused the bequest, which will go to the hospital. There was an enormous concourse at M. Chauchard's funeral. The waistcoat in which the deceased was buried was covered with pearl buttons worth half a million francs (£20,000). Tbe crowd was disrespectful to the dead, many persons snatching flowers from the bier.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3214, 14 June 1909, Page 5
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108A BEQUEST REFUSED Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3214, 14 June 1909, Page 5
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