The Archive · 1938

Rich US. Indian's Widow Arrested

Fedetal Government Takes Possession — Titles Disputed

Los Angeles, Oct, 30.

Braving threats of armed resistance, Government agents today raided the Manston of Mrs. Anna Laura Barnett, Si-year-old white widow of the world's richest American Indian, and evicted Mrs. Barnett and her daughter from their home.

The eviction followed the Government's decision to take over the estate of Mrs. Barnett's husband who died in 1934 after having been adjudged mentally unsound atid an habitual drunkard. Mrs. Barnett, who is alleged to have married the Indian for his million', fought the Government in' the courts for four years in an effort to retain possession of her husband's fortune which wes mede in the sale of oil lands.

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