| Show THIS COIN WAS CURSED misfortune misfortunes that befell the persons who happened to own it an eld old ret reticent ident of carthage tells a r report r for the press a strange range story of a cursed coin ome money turne turrie I 1 over to dick griffith treasurer of aisher county years ago was a 0 20 o galil piece with ith a singular 1 design cut 11 13 it ahn represented a cros crost with naked snakes coiling around it the old resilient resident says that when it was passed across the hand it caused an american booty captured by pir pit atea ates in chinese waters and sent to rome as a beace offering the coin was stolen tiona rome by a spaniard and he fearing to pass it gave it to his friend who was coming to america hildebrandt HIMe brandt nearly died ot of fever while carrying it and holt died from ome some pi cular ailment aliment which baffled the doctors 1 what became of the coin I 1 do not know but every word of thia this story 13 as true as anything I 1 ever told carthage mo press a peculiar tu to pass over one no the singular part of the u hole whole thing he lie continued wax was that every man who held that coin in his hand had a long algell of airline sickness afterward and some lied tied I 1 aw saw griffith a year your or two later and he said he had never fully recovered and neer never expected to griffith got interested in that coin when hen he heard what it had done and began to trace back lack ite its history he lie CA 1 davie david had paid it to him and aked asked him where he got it davis had got it aiom a man I 1 holt folt and I 1 holt folt rot got it from the guerrilla chief barn sam hildebrandt Hll debrandt hildebrandt Hll debrandt not got thu the coin from a spaniard in a stage robbery the spaniard told him be the coin had been cursed ii raed bv the pop popo as it was as part ot 0 |
