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Show TREASURE IN JI$PUTE Owner of Old Macy Mansion Man-sion Has Possession and Refuses to Turn Money Orcr.- NEW YORK, Jan. 10 Who will gat the treasure, said to be valued at H50.000. said to; havs been found in an old rusty box under the alts of the old Macy mansion in the Bronx, is a question that may put tf test some nics and novel points of law. -Contractor Meehan. who recently purchased pur-chased the land from the estate of the late Theodore A. Macy, stiU bold the box In his possession, and does not believe the Macy be Irs have any rightful claim to the contents. "I have gone far enough Into the box." he said, "to find that it contains mors than 1100,000. mostly of gold money of various va-rious countries, and that there is no docu ment or paper in It indicating that it aver belonged to any of the Macy family. It they can establish a claim they can get it There is nothing in the toox with a date sn it later than the Civil war." One of the principal heirs of the Macy estate expressed considerable incredulity. He said that the box belonged to bis family, fam-ily, on the ground that his tatter's house was built in 1868. and the box could only have been placed where it was found when the structure was erected, unless someone dug underneath. |