The San Francisco call., 1907-01-13
By Franklin Hichbom


ton, Mass has been invaded b.
the curious fniblic; Nehemiah Cur
ter and his sister. Lucy, who had
lived there in solitude for nearly three
quarters OF q century. are dead. within
"A few hours of each other. Their alb
sence from their garden. from the store
~ which they purchased their few
necessities. led their neighbors, who
had never had opportunity to enter
their house. 10 make investigation. The
aged brother and sister were found
stark in death
But tlEs was not all that the
strangers found. They found gold and
silver aibd banknotes. stocks and bonds
with the coupons long unclipped. And
they did uG find it I'm stinted measure.
There were bags containing thousands
OF dollars IN gold and hundreds in sill
Yer: there were bonds worth thousands
and packages Of banl0notes that ran
up into the tens OF thousands. The
RICHES were hidden away under old
carpets. beh md pictures. in mOth-eaten
trunks and IN vases of antique and
curious design. Gold was found in cup
boards. IN old chests and boxes. even i'm
old clothing. Among this strangely
stored money Were coins Of the eigh-
teenth century mingled with the mint
age Of ] 9O6. and there, in the midst
OF their treas ure. lay Nehemiah and
Lucy Cutter. ID ad. the last Of their line
with probably not blood connection
in the land that their fathers had
snatched from the Wilderness and the
savage and defended against the
armies Of George III
Aliens had they liA'ed in their own
country. despised and not a little feared
by neighb0rs, who knew nothing OF
their stranea history and cared less
And all because OF a bayonet thrust at
The hands Of a. British soldier 100 years
The Associatsad Press report OF the
finding Of the hidden wealth reads as
follows:
BOSTON,, fortune in gold and
silver coins. banknotes Of various
old dates, stocks and bonds with
the coupons Enclippcd. has been
discovered hidden away in an up
stairs chamber Of little old reVO-
lutiOpary no bse at Arlington,
where Nehem lah Cutter and his
sister, Lucy Cutter. have made
their homo alt their lives Their
father grand Father and great
grandfather be fore them lived and
died in the same house and the for
lated by the different generations.
The house was literally filled with
wealth, tucked under carpets.
stuffed in the chimney hole. behind
window sashes- under the flooring
and even in old moth-eaten trunks.
Such story IS well calculated 10
create comment even among those who
had never heard Of the mysterious
brother and sister or the traditions
told OF them and their family. But 10
New Englanders here in San Francisco
and elsewhere. who had heard Of the
old homestead zt Arlington and the
strange characters that during more
than q century the house had sheltered
the account became Of double interest
A well known Lady OF San Francisco
who lived at Arlington when the dead
brother and sister were children. has
told me the story Of the Cutter family
and something OF the secrets which
Tie old Cutter house Of mystery con-
oealed. ] viii tell the story as she told
il 10 mo.
The curious old Cutter homestead al
Arlington, where the dead bodies o,
Nehemiah and Lucy Cutter were found
the other day. was built by Robert
cutter the first Of his name to settle
At Arlington, in 1740. He had reached
Arlington in 1873. Even at that early
dafe his people had for nearly a Gen.
furv been citizens OF Massachusetts
colony. his grandfather having settled
a. Boston in 1868. At his death his
house passed to his son Paul. who had
bccn born in Il. and who lived there al
his days-with the exception Of the
wears that he was with Washington
army.
a british Soldiers Cruelty