Show ILL GOTTEN GOLD the Clie of money noncy found burled in i I 1 old cellar new york journal 1 Thol death ofAf rs fanny hargrove hari in i a solitary Boli tary house in east last J eighty I 1 og g sixth street near the river wan d becu peculiar 11 jar she he has lived there until untie the memory of the oldest in not to the contra 4 ry ko no one knew how bow she came there he appL appeared red t to have no friends or relatives occasionally an old gentleman would call on her jor fbi achour an hour and they would be seen silling together in the tile garden but lie never nem entered tho house she permitted no adne one to do this considerable b sid curiosity was exhibited in the neighborhood to know something about the interior J of tile old houft but it t wai wa never gratified stilled ohp rice is one of the ar oldest lest on danli itlen tall island it aeed to bo a firt braf t chice in the tunes of the car tier n enesi and was one time the abode lode of a CA colonel lonel joyce who reemi to have given reception at which the wine flowed deeply and freely then lien for foro a ion long time it seems seeni to have b V I 1 been in inhabited eted and after a while the people who were sparsely y scattered around noti noticed ceil a middle aged agm lady in occupancy now and arid then ilien she would order some email small things at the grocery stores on third avenue but so seldom as its to make the wunder what the he lived on al at itri length tit she site went lie the way at S all neau the t first that was known of th at event was the sight of a hearp iriving Jr iving up at the front gate if how all anybody had been notified of the death or who had taken cla cl charge a e of the funeral arrangements rg po no body knew but the coffin was carried out of the house then and aud there which proved that the pre rites had bad been attended to it is supposed that she wrote to certain officials to come and arid see her on oil such and such a night that tile they came and found her dead lead body an and instructions what to do f r owen murphy is a laborer of aco oto 2110 second avenue he ile was called upon bya by n maii dressed in black and having a foreign accent last thursday 1 lie ile was asked what ho lie would charge to do a job at di digging that would take ad a day a ire he agreed on a price and wet net all tho a man in in black tho the next morning he ile was accompanied by another man whom froni his to be an official of some sort tho the man in black old fold murphy to come into the garden and lie pointed out a certain spot where to dig he ile went at tit it and after about half an all hour wb whenever enever he be dug down over three feet the man ia in black told him to come away the two others then consulted let us try the next said the man mail in black and they went over to a sycamore on the left of the garden murphy was vas again put to digging the roots of the sycamore made the job it difficult one and murphy arphy had to po go for a pickax when begot he got back athe he liole hole was a bood de deal al deeper than when ho he left it he ile was urged to proceed after a moment or two the tho tool struck on something that bounded ika Ih lii etol etal the man iu in black went down on hia his knees and then dug away with liis his hands bands he ile found the hard substance it looked like an old piece becq 0 f irous bitt was so ill iiii encased by the gnarled roots odthe of the tree that it could not bo be budged the man mau in black told him bil to ga go and get a saw stiv by alii this time tim bite a number of people had I 1 glittered gathered and were looking on from froin the street streel they seemed puzzled arid and some ono one said wd they were going to tw bury old fanny hartgrove Hare Ilare grove tin under the tree istook it took along a long timo time to faw the roots away and arid tile saw was badly damaged by com coming iligin in contact with a small i iron box about eix six jaches long by four iu breadth it was more to luck than anything eke that the box was discovered at all 11 inthe pickax had not struck in in one little brevice crevice it would probably lave been lest the man in black tri displayed splayed great joy when the box wan wab pried out of its encase ments mints he ile took a small key from front hi veat pocket and tried to open I 1 the te box but the lock waa too rusty they worked at it for a long time an and t then en sinus smashed lied it in with the pickax the box bok contained only paper four or live of which they rea read d the man in black c aid said there is poor old bid cinyd dannys marriage certificate then he e gaid said there it is the money is in the cellar mu murphy arphy went with them but not j through the house the man in blackwenn black went round to open pe tho the cellar door from the inside he ire brought a lighted lamp in the cellar sellar lie counted off thirteen feet brohl one wall and seven from an awer ath cr and told the ma man to di dig 9 again ho ire had to break the c cement ement emerit I 1 which W wa wai as i a foot thick with his pickalo again then lie dug quickly and arid about a foo fomand and tand a half underground under ground came to au an ironboy iron box five times the size of the first box aa As it was waa was dragged up by three men its weight demanded the exertion ertan of all three men it ik rolled av over ar and pud broke open A shower 0 of f eold gold pieces fell out the n man an in in black a c took up a few and looked nt at them j all coins ot of louis philippe Philip pc he 6 said the box boy must have been there since 1848 at least how much is there asked ted the other there should beG beGO OOOO francea fratic call saul said the man in black the tile box under the hearthstone had lie ile then handed banded murphy a 35 bill and let him go without putting any injunction ot of secrecy upon him hirn murphy told the tile story in the tile neighborhood bo bor boyhood bood A journal reporter found it next to impossible to find out anything about chii singular woman jed ed her money so carefully care carefully full y in the cellar and went out of the world leaving leavin hardly an impression of wha t she le had been though liviu living in new york all these years the vii he atory story as told by one wh who 0 knew her was that many years of ago 0 she was betrothed to a paymaster in the french navy that during the turmoil of the revolution of 1848 he r ran 8 n a away way to join her taking with him a chest of gold which belonged to his government they ha d been together only a it few weeks when she found that ho wal was a thief and up braided him with it not long after afraid of capture ho lie blew out his brains this blow almost dathron ed her reason the ill gotten money ebebe she would not touch Togi to give veit it back would wa be lo 10 cast obloquy on the memory of a I 1 man lian she tenderly loved the chest of gold i feared the man who bo found ui ita few days since was no doubt an emissary 0 f the I 1 french rench government come to claim his own |