SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF MONEY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1481, 12 February 1887, Page 2

SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF MONEY

*Rome ten months ago the death of Mr J. B. Paine wan announced from New York. He was a g andson of one of those who Bigned the Declaration of Independence, and a writer and composer of Home repute. EUb family are among th« principal people of Boston, wbere the deoeaaei lived until bis avarice m dealing with those -vho borrowed money from him drove him from i hat city to New York. Here he lived m penary and wretchedneao. One day, about tw»>lvo months uince, he wib knocked dowu m the street, and rua over, and from the effects of this accidetn he died. At the time it was not known that the wretched man, who hod often received ohailty, poßcessert any e«(a'e (says <he oorrei ponder t of the Standard) but after a while persons who had borrowed from him be»an to enquire to whom the interest was payabla. This led to an investigation, the reßult of which waa a bo ief that Fahie was worth upwards of ono million dollars. One broker stated that Puino ono day deceived fiom him securities woith 330000d015, which fao carried away m a pieco of newspaper. Now a singular discovery has bten made Over the small property th.^t wbb found litigation a,ose, m the course of which a witness has just testified that nineteen years ago Paine gave him a bundle wrapped i . a cotton handkerch'ef, and asked him to take care of it for him. <j n only one occanion since bad Paine a^ed it his parcol was safe. The witness had not examined it, bpoause he Bnppoeed it to contain niunuscripK tho product ot Paine's pen. n lea ning this the ( ourt require'! tlie produciion of tbo parcel, and «'he opened it was fo t>d to contain 35G,750d01s (upw.irds of £70,000) m good bauk notes hesides other securities to a very large amount, the value oi which oauuot be stated immediately beoaane of th« lapso of time lines they wer« ierae^t