Man reunited with wallet after 60+ years

GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ohio - February 25, 2010

Jerry Busch says he was putting in wiring four years ago when he found Henry Leland's wallet in the rafters of a house in Geneva-on-the-Lake, 45 miles northeast of Cleveland.

Eighty-one-year-old Leland says the wallet was stolen during a weekend he spent in the area in 1949.

Busch did some detective work to find the wallet's owner but then set the matter aside. Recently, his wife got curious, did an Internet search based on the identification in the wallet, and tracked Leland to Florida.

Last week, Jerry and LuAnn Busch made a winter getaway to Fort Myers, Fla., and met Leland to return his property. He says seeing it again was amazing.

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