Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1919 — FIND CREEL FAMILY WEALTH [ARTICLE]

FIND CREEL FAMILY WEALTH

Two Million Pesos Was Turned Over to Mexican Government for Identification. ‘ Mexico City.—When representatives of the famous Creel family of Chibuahua recently appeared before the government officials here with requests for information regarding the whereabouts of mining, railway and other valuable stock valued at close to 2,000,000 pesos, they were astonished to learn that the stock, as well as about 2,000,000 pesos in paper money, was held by the national treasury for identification of ownership and that it only had been discovered a few months ago. According to published accounts, workmen, while cleaning out a spare room in the building used by the federal district government, found a score of.locked boxes which contained the paper money and shares. Neither the governor of the federal district, Gen. Alfredo Breceda, nor the district eburt, after guarded Investigations, could determine who owned Jhe freasure, so