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Men who claimed to find buried treasure arrested
Friday, April 29, 2005 Posted: 10:23 AM EDT (1423 GMT)
METHUEN, Massachusetts (AP) -- Two men who claimed in numerous national television interviews that they found buried treasure in the back yard of a home were arrested early Friday after being questioned by police, who said the money was stolen.
Investigators believe Barry Billcliff, 27, of Manchester, New Hampshire, and Timothy Crebase, 22, of Methuen, Massachusetts, found old bank notes and bills in a house where they were doing roofing work.
Both men were charged with receiving stolen property, conspiracy and accessory after the fact, Lt. Kevin Martin said. They were to be arraigned Friday morning.
The men said they found 1,800 bank notes and bills dating between 1899 and 1928, with a face value of about $7,000.
Domenic Mangano, owner of the Village Coin Shop in Plaistow, New Hampshire, examined the find and estimated its value between $50,000 to $75,000.
The men's stories, though, prompted some suspicions because of discrepancies. The depth of the buried crate, for example, ranged from 9 inches to 2 feet.
The men also gave conflicting reasons for digging in the yard of the house Crebase rents.
They told one reporter they were digging a hole to plant a tree.
In other reports, they said they were trying to remove a small tree or dig up the roots of a shrub that was damaging the home's foundation.
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Now they are saying the notes were in tin cans in gutters of an old barn the men were working on? I can guarantee you who ever lived there or owned that barn didn't have a clue those old notes were still up there! There is no way any one would leave them, in this day and age, in those tin cans in a gutter. The lest one could do would be to convert to plastic containers or PVC pipe and that would have been done years ago. I would suspect the real owner is dead and gone and his/her relatives gave up looking years and years ago for his hidden wealth. Seeing how the newest bills were from the 1920's I would assume these were stashed during the Great Depression and have remained there since! Great story and a great find but.....filled with deception, theft and greed! Guess we could say it had a political ending!!!
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Posted 04/29/2005 12:55 pm
Mike
