Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-06
One Said to Possess Check
for $4,000 She Refuses
to Cash.
WOMEN ARE REMOVED
TO GALLINGER HOSPITAL
Pastor Says Home Will Be Found
if Unfortunates Will Listen
''to Reason"

Mrs. Margaret Morgan Millsaps and
Mrs. Anna Morgan johnson, elderly sis
tiers, who for 20 years lived at 1872
Harvard street and have been well
known figures in that neighborhood,
Whiled away the hours in Gallinger
Hospital today, their home taken from
them and their friends nonplussed by
their refusal to listen Ito reason"
Notwithstanding that one of the sis
tiers has check for $4,000 among her
effects, both were evicted from their
home because payment on the mort
gage was not forthcoming. The home
is closed to them, but Rev. George F..
Dudley, rector of st. Stephens and the
Incarnation Church, who has known
them long time, said today that If he
could make the sisters listen to reason
they would cash the $4,000 check and
have enough to live on.
Found in Room Praying.
When a United States deputy marshal
called at the residence yesterday with
court order Mrs. Millsaps and Mrs.
johnson were mot at home" A lock-
smith was called and the front door was
opened. Virtually every door in the
mouse was locked, and when the mar
shall finally made his way to a front
room on the second floor he found the
two women-their friends say they are
past 65-sitting together, praying.
The court officer was about his busi-
ness for some time before the sisters
could be prevailed upon to leave, and
by the time they had put on their
quaint hats and cloaks odds and ends
OF furniture, bric-a-brac and fanny pro-
traits had been piled on the sidewalk
In front of the house. A crowd of the
curious stood silently as the women
were led to an automobile. 1t was at
the suggestion of DR.. Dudley that they
were taken to Gallinger Hospital for
mental observation. Hospital authori-
Ties Sald this morning they had spent
"a comfortable night"
For several years Mrs. Millsaps and
mrs. johnson have been members of
Or. Dudley's church. The parishioners
have known of their plight, but Mr..
Dudley said that all efforts to assist
them had been denied. They had no
money and kept to themselves leaving
the house to attend church services oc-
caslonally, but staying within a great
zeal OF the time and spending more and
more time praying. They prayed aloud
yesterday as they left the house
Check Held for Two Years.
The check that Mrs MilIsaps has re-
IuSeo 10 cash was paid to her about two
years ago by the Perpetual Building AS
ISOLATION for her equity in a house on
Columbia road, which was owned by
ner divorced husband. Dr. Dudley said
ne understood that the husband, said
now to be living in New York with chill
aren OF the couple, offered to deed the
mouse TO Mrs. MillSapS if she would
agree to leave it in trust to the chill
dren, but that she refused, whereupon
the husband ordered the house sold and
MRS. MlllSapS paid for her equity. Mrs
Mlllsaps denied the legality of the sale
however, and refused to cash the check
great many articles were taken
from inches they have occupied for
years In the moving yesterday, but the
cneck was not found. Mrs. johnson.
VINO is widow, doesn't know about it
and Mrs. Millsaps has refused to en-
tighten those interested in her.
Inc religious convictions of the sis
tiers have occaSioned comment among
tnelr nelghborS and members of their
church. A deputy marshal who called
yesterday observed in a front window
a picture Symbolizing the Christ and
a photograph beside it, An account
of a visit Mrs. Johnson says the Deity
paid to her home was pinned beneath
MRS. Mlllsaps is quite confident her
sister recorded an actual experience.
Claim Heirship to Property.
Forged in the chain of their mis-
fortunes Is a circumstance that Mrs
Millsaps VOWS is the reason for all their
suffering. She declares she is one of
the heirs with claim to the Trinity
Church property in New York City
and that people there are holding mil
lions OF dollars from her. Thousands
OF persons have produced papers in
the last 20 years purporting to estab-
lish a connection with alleged rightful
owners of one of the most valuable
properties in the country. Mrs. Mill
saps claim, which is Mrs Johnson's
claim as WELL has not been pressed
but the matter has preyed upon the
women until now it is an obSeSSion.
The two sisters were at one time
prominent in the affairs of the Daugh-
tiers OF the American Revolution. The
Morgan family was socially prominent
in Virginia, claiming connection with
the family of Gen. P. G. T. Beaure-
gard, the famous Confederate leader.
They would not harm a SOUL" said
DR.: Dudley. They pray for every
body. They prayed for the men that
turned them out of their house. We
knew they would have to leave even
tually, because they have nothing. If
I can make them listen to reason
the check will be cashed and home