The Nation - News from April 19, 1987
A Texas heiress, who landed in a mental hospital because of gifts worth more than $100,000 within a week’s time to a San Antonio family of casual acquaintances, enjoyed her first day of liberty after almost two weeks of involuntary confinement. Leslie Negley, 37, persuaded San Antonio jurors in a sanity case pressed by her mother that she was not clinically insane. Her grandfather, the late George Brown Sr., founded the nation’s sixth-largest construction company, Brown & Root Inc., of Houston.
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