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Show HIDDEN WEALTH FOUND , BEHIND OLD PICTURE Deed 75 Years Old to Property In Missouri Not? Valued at Half-Million Dollars. 1 NEW YORK, March 10. While changing the frame of an old portrait, Mrs. Sophie Mattern of Brooklyn has found behind the canvas a deed to land occupied by the present town of Car-rollton. Car-rollton. Mo., a town of 4000 Inhabitants. Well-known lawyers who have looked up the title assure Mrs. Mattern that It is sound and worth half a million dollars. dol-lars. The deed, signed by President Monroe, Mon-roe, February 4, 1819, and granting to an ancestor of Mrs. Mattern, James Darden, veteran of the war of 1812, the Missouri land, is In a perfect state of preservation. It has been hidden behind be-hind the old canvas more than seventy-five seventy-five years, was almost lost In the Galveston Gal-veston flood and at length arrived In the possession of Mrs. Mattern through the Rev. Dr. Thorpeh, an old friend of the family, upon his death. A few days ago she decided to renew the frame and discovered the deed. Investigation In-vestigation Is said to have shown that the title was duly entered on the records rec-ords at Washington and suit for the recovery re-covery of the property probably will be instituted at once. |