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Show LOST OPERA SCORES HAVE BEEN FOUND XEV YOftK. Dec. CO.-Tbo lost op-1 era scores In the Metropolitan Opera house S10.000 prize competition stolen stol-en from the Adams Express company I wagon last fVirday. have been recovered. re-covered. John Vfca. who handed tho four manuscripts to th,. Harlem police today, Hald his life had been threaten-cd threaten-cd if he told how he obtained possession posses-sion of jLhem. Detectives persistently questioned him. however, and then , started out with him on a tour of in-r in-r estimation. ' . ; Last Saturday Walter Damrosch. Ino orchestra loader .md composer ktHioa which la or the best grand op- era composed by a native American, shipped the four operas by the express ex-press company to Georgo W. Chad-wick, Chad-wick, director of the New England Conservatory of Mualc in Boston. The package was 6tolen from a wagon while the driver was delivering another an-other package, and could et bo fouud. Early today, John Ilea, about whose personality little seems 'to be known, brought the bundle containing the' missing scores to the East Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth street police station. He said two men had given hlni the bundle and told him to turn it over to th police, threatening him with death If he gave any Luloiniatlon. |