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Show HISTORIC PAINTING FOUND. Supposed Long-Lost "Last Supper" la Located In New York la Deposit Vault.' New York. In a vault at the Lincoln Lin-coln 8afe Deposit company, in Forty-second Forty-second streot, is a very old painting with a romantic history. It Is believed be-lieved by those who own It to be an unfinished work by Raphael. To picture is alleged to be the Jong-lost Jong-lost "Last Supper," which was stolen or disappeared during the Spanish pillage pil-lage of Rome In 1527. That there was such a picture, and that It was an unfinished un-finished work, art histories show. It Is also a matter ot history that It disappeared dis-appeared at the time mentioned. One hundred and fifty years ago tho picture, now In the Lincoln vaults, Is alleged to have ben In the pas-session pas-session ot an old Spanish sailor, who lived In a hovel near New Orleans. Ho kept It locked In a tool chest, and would never show it, not even to his family. Ho Is supposed to have got (lt either by theft or by purchase In Spain. It Is now In the possession of 8am-I 8am-I tic! O. Trmlell, who will take It to Bu-ropo Bu-ropo to be. passed upon. |