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Show . i ' . .... ' 7. "'"J 'x ' ' " " - - I KrW vaK, i 6. jse; 'i T. Co an'of I -.las, Tex, dro; . ed l on York Yesterday r the r Jrpc a of t -t-tlnj l.ito r.otion a clai.n rr.ade some time ago by several heirs of the late Andrew Ilartsfield for - a iare -parcel of valuable real estate. , It la declared by teRe personi that I Tarts 'old owned I all Uat section cf te city lyirtT "west : of l.fth avenue, bet we; n ; SeYenty- ! flf h and One Hundrel and Twenty-fUh Twenty-fUh streets, part of which Is now Cen- tr-' park. T; j tract, e"-v' !npr j ar , 13 ftorth much more t n : j,-,.J0, j,-,.J0, Fiy Jt'r. Cowan, who r: -es It at m re th.- a bUHorr'd rs, but 1 wllllr ; to f j on a re. le c: rVi basis, It la said, . with the present reputed re-puted owner,. . -- The HartsOeld, or 'Hatfield, clalmj ls not a new one. but the hetri hive rw 'grot together end,'" accord ? to I r. Cowan, propose to tajte acuve tte- 3 tor ward asserting1 telr rlf .ta. ; Cowas first c? me to New Yor't last N vf Tiber and placed the claim before the "controller "con-troller and the. city chamberlain, When Wa claim, was qu stloned the lawyer fad he, would go t theTegla-ter'a theTegla-ter'a of"c and, procure ths olime of the records wherein Is i?oorded' the leae, to the city of Andrew Ilaxtsfield's 160 acres for ninety-nine years and a day, beginning with the year 1795; Mr. Cowan did not find the record. He now asserts) that a certain Individual, who is known to : hirn, surreptitiously pnrlqlned one of tlie record books 'con-'talnlngi'a 'con-'talnlngi'a copy of the lease."' It is' now his intention to apply to the courts to compel the cuBtodlan "of vtlie record ' to 1 produce It in court.. , , ,t |