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Show THREW HIS LOOT 1NT0A SWAMP New York, Aug. ,. Somewhere in a four-acre swamp which faces on 'Feather Bed Lane," an old Dutch thoroughfare in the outskirts of the Bronx, is a packet of silverware and jewelry valued at $2,0n. The valuables valu-ables are working downward through the. mud and quicksand and probably will never be recovered. The owners do not yet know they have lost the articles. Nobody but the man who threw them there knows the exact spot where they were flung, and ho will not tell. According to the story, as pieced together by the police, the lit.tlo packet of treasure Is the loot of a burglar who Jimmied his way Into an apartment house nearby and carried away ever) thing he cared to ftom tho flat of a wealthy real estate operator. He had an easy time, because tho family had gone out of the city for two days, and the servants had received re-ceived a holiday. But while he was at work a woman across the airshaft saw him and called the police. The burglar heard her call, howeer, and fled with a policeman a block or two behind. He ran into the swamp and hid In the tall marsh grass. When the policeman found him stuck fast In the quicksand his booty had disappeared. "I threw the stuff into the swamp," he said. "Nobody will ever get it." |