The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-06-29
FINDS BAG OF OLD COINS
Italian Workmen Dig Them CT
While FXcavating in n. Y.

While EXcayating in n. u.
| Workmen in the employ of the
Fl. ]. Mullen Contracting company
of Jamaica, while exeavating for
| improvements on the old Jericho
turnpike at Commaek a few days
ago, unearthed a bag containing
number of gold. silver and copper
coins the aggregate value of which
could NOT be estimated, owing to
the fact that number of them
quickly disappeared into pockets
of the excited Italian laborers
when the find was unearthed,
1t was near quitting time
when one of the laborers ran his
pick into the mouldered bag, which
had once been the receptacle into
which the coins had been placed,
He heard the jingle as the pick
struck and, greatly excited, began
to dig with greater celebrity than
he had evinced since he had left
the mines in Sunny It Others,
too, whose well-trained ears had
heard the metallic click of the pick,
looked on in wonderment until tine
decayed covering of the old leather
bag came into view, whom there
was grand rush toward the spot.
Big Bill O'Brien, foreman in
charge of the work, hove into sight
to inquire into the cause OF the
disturbance and to learn Why so
many of the Mullen dollars We're
being wasted by the excited ltal-
ians. When ne perceived the bag
iyias on the ground and the Ital-
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ID HIS way through the gfbberfng
aborers and placing his foot on
he find proclaimed in loud voice
hat it was his
Further excavating disclosed a
number of coins of various denomi-
nations and values with dates in
scribed ranging from 1852 to the
early eighteenth century. There |
were only among those upon which |
the dates could be discerned, ali
English sovereign, number OF
Spanish coins and pennies, and one
which was dated 1752, bore the de-
scTiption ''Saulus Ill" There were
number of others that Big Bill
failed to rescue, and which gave
rise to the belief that the find
totaled up into the thousands Of
dollars,
The discovery was made in the
highway, fronting the property of
Carl G. Burr, Jr., at Whitman Hol-
low and many theories are preva-
lent among the nations as to the
manner in which the treasure could
have been deposited in that place
| Historically, Commack, a century
ago was a greater commercial cen
/ ter than Northport Records show
/ that John Walters, prosperous
merchant at that time handled
more gold than We're handled at
Northport by packet sloop than
did Northport itself 1t was here,
/ too, that the main routes from
Eastern and Western Long Island
met and where the mail carriers
in the olden days would put up
for the night when trayersing their
4 routes
The road on which the men were
working is New York State Route
/ No 35, an extension of the Jericho
turnpike 1t is on the rural free
delivery route from Huntington,
Before the Revolutionary war
and during the conflict it was the
general mastering place Of the
colonial troops, and it may be pos
s.ble that the money unearthed
was at one time intended to pay
off the colonial troopers.
Big Bill mourns the fact that he
did not arrive on the scene bit
early and secure the ancient coin
for presentation to museum.
However, he picked up few dur
ing the scuffle, which may be seen
by the curious in the O'Brien mu-
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