Cleaning Cistern Finds $50,000 Bonds

1908

Vineland, N. J., May 22 — All Newfield was excited when it was learned that A. S. Kandle had found $50,000 worth of bonds at the bottom of an old cistern he was cleaning. Kandle is the village barber, and soon his shop was besieged by anxious neighbors and friends, whose congratulations were most hearty. The bonds were issued by the West Jersey railroad forty-two years ago to John Kandle, father of the barber. The elder Kandle died about fifteen years ago, and old neighbors recall to mind his oft-repeated assertion that he had wealth but could not use it. The reason is now found to be that somehow the bonds got into the cistern, where they have lain for over forty years. Kandle immediately took his find to a lawyer friend in Camden, and as the lawyer advised silence until he could make an investigation, Kandle refuses full details.