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Show BACKED WITH BANK NOTES. A Picture Wliicli Had a Lining That Included In-cluded Two 1500 Kills. Charles W. Duntz lives on the Landing Land-ing road, Kinderhook, N. Y., near the Halfway house. One morning recently, while his wife was engaged in cleaning a portrait that had been in their possession posses-sion more than a quarter of a century, she accidentally broke through the cover on the back and saw underneath it a piece of paper. She pulled it out and found that it was au old two-dollar bill. She called her son's attention to it and the lad took the cover off. Underneath Un-derneath it they found two five-hundred-dollar bills issued by a bank in Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, one in IS.jO, the other in 18(31. During the day Mr. Duntz took the bills to the Cnion bank and learned that the bank of issuance was still in existence, and that the bills were probably genuine genu-ine aud worth their face value. Mr. Reynolds, teller of the bank, communicated communi-cated with the Massachusetts bank people peo-ple and learned that it had five-hundred-dollar bills of the old state issue still out and was ready to redeem them if they were genuine. About twenty-eight years ago, says Kough Notes, this picture pic-ture was sent to Mr. Duntz by a wealthy relative, who requested that it should be carefully kept in the family, the portrait por-trait being that of a daughter who is still living. Mr. Duntz thinks that the doner placed the money where it was found, expecting that it would be discovered dis-covered some day wdien it would be-of some real benefit to the finder. She was very peculiar in her ways at all times. |
