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Treasure in the cellar brought more trouble than riches
Frederick N. Rasmussen | Back Story
September 7, 2008
The story of two Baltimore teenagers and their random discovery
of a cache of gold coins in a copper jug while digging in the
dirt cellar floor of a three-story rowhouse at 132 S. Eden St.
became a national story during the height of the Depression.
Theodore Jones, 16, and Henry Grob, 15, both from fatherless
families who were on relief, had formed a club, the
"Rinky-Dinky-Doos," and were busy digging a hole on the warm
afternoon of Aug. 31, 1934, in the floor of the Eden Street
tenement where Jones and his mother resided.
Newspaper accounts from the time described the booty the boys
were probably burying as "secret club papers" or "cards, dice
and chips."
Suddenly, while digging, Jones' shovel struck something. He
reached into the hole and pulled out a round medal coin.