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Show WHO OWNS THE OLD MAN'S COISS? Complications in an Action For a Strong Box Full of Money. Tiffin, Ohio, June 14 Some time ago August Schinuckcr purchased the farm which for years has been omu-d by the Cadvvalladers, father and son who were both noted for their miserly habits and accumulation of money, which they were uever known to iu-vest. iu-vest. While making sonic improvements improve-ments two workmen dug up a heavy box, which Schmucker took possession of. Shortly afterwards old coins began to appear in circulation, and the administrator ad-ministrator of the- younger Cadwalla-der, Cadwalla-der, who died about a year ago, brought suit for the possession of the box. A writ was placed in the hands of a deputy dep-uty sheriff, who began to dig at a point in the garden where the condition of the earth indicated that it had been recently re-cently disturbed. He soon unearthed a grain sack well tilled with the mysterious myste-rious coin, which upon being counted was found to an mint to 1.252 live franc pieces, or about $1,200. Schmucker at once brought suit to regain possession of the treasure, and suit will also be entered by the two workmen who unearthed un-earthed the box. Altogether th? case promises to provide au interesting series se-ries of suits at law. The evidence of the two men who discovered the box is almost conclusive as showing that the l,2r2 francs is scarcely more than the fourth of what the chest contained. as thev agree that the total weight w as mt less ' than 300 pounds. |