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Show ' - Erllc cr mcL:3. b CII CI:t!:cs Is Iszrrcl h a Krj Crlc::s Restaurant. NEW ' ORLEANS. J La., April :. L IUChes to the amount of 522,000, hidden within a bundle of old clothes, lay In a corner of Victor's restaurant for many hours. .. Not until the rightful hand of the owners reached It was the small fortune disturbed in. Its hiding, though a half-dozen half-dozen waiters and a. fewMrasclble patrons pa-trons had kicked and shoved the . little parcel with its golden treasure time Innumerable. Mrs. N. C. Lund, wife of the deceased Ban Francisco stock broker and. millionaire. mil-lionaire. N. C, Lund, and Miss Edna Pearl .Lund, after being in New Orleans since Mardl Gras.-made preparations for a departure to New,Tork on Saturday Satur-day evening. A diamond, tiara, 200 stock cwtlflcates of "United States Steel preferred and $340 In eurrericy were placed In a ehatelalnsj pouch and for safe keeping over night sewed Into a pillow slip. ( An hour before train time tb Lands') trunks were In readiness, while a bun die of garments intended as a gift tot a trusty waiter at Victor's lay on ths bed. At the last moment the pillow slip was torn open, but no money bag was to be found. Miss Lund informed Chief; of Detectives Flotte and in a half -hour the Polio department had men detailed on what looked like one of the big af fairs of recent months. Meanwhile the old clothes bundle ha gone to Victor's, Ita recipient threw it into a corner. Five hours . afterward the panie-atrlcken Callfornlana rem am-, bered It.- I Hot foot they rushed to Victor, and, to the surprise' of all beholders, discovered dis-covered the sought-for riches wrapped, inside. . Instead of sewlngr the treasure In the pillow, it had been 'left -on the -16 night and-carelessly wrapped up " ;thi the old garments. . K N. C. Lund was at one time a r peei of James R.' Keene, the famous I vm Tork financier, when the latter .rraa making fame and money In California Lund died in Paris three years ago re puted a multi-millionaire Tha Lands' left for New Tork. - |