The Tipton advertiser., 1876-11-16
Buried Treasure.

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coach running from Boise City, Idaho,
to Corinne, Utah, was stopped by five
stage robbers, and treasure intrusted
to Wells, Fargo 4 CO., to the amount
of S6l 900. stolen. The footpads di-
vided the gold dust and coin, buried
the bullion, amounting to about $780,
600 near the scene of the robbery, and
then fled i'm different directions, each
one selecting his own course. One of
the robbers, with the design of cheat
ing his fellows, returned to the
plant" unearthed and buried il about
four miles distant, and then proceeded
about his business. A few days after
he was captured by the authorities,
and, with two others of the gang, who
were subsequently arrested, sent to the
Nevada State Prison at Carson for
eight years.
1t seems that the robber who trans
planted the treasure kept the secret
for some years, but finally told his
associates of the circumstances of the
case, and later, when taken down with
fatal illness, communicated the sc.
cret to guard in the State Prison,
| who had been uniformly kind to him.
I This guard endeavored to find "the
plant" but the description of the place
OF burial was SO inaccurate that he was
unable to find ii, and after several un-
successful efforts to unearth it, con-
| cluded to give the agents Of Wells,
| Fargo Il Co. the benefit of his infor-
nation. The result was that about
year ago Wells, Fargo 4 Co. engaged
:. Robertson, of Oakland, to "work
up'' the case, offering him handsome
percentage of whatever bullion he
should recover.
Mr.. Robertson visited the spot where
the plant was supposed to be, and
found conclusive evidence that he had
reached 1t, but unfortunately for him
the plant had been raised and removed
to another place, evidently by the
foot-pads who survived the original
mover of the treasure, and who, II APP
pears. Il short time before Mr.. Robert
son reached the spot, had been re-
leased from the State prison. Invcsti-
cation convinced the detective that
portion of the bullion, amounting to
about Sl3, 600 or Sl5, 900, had been dis
posed Of In various places around Nir-
ginia City, and II was finally traced to
the Carson mint, where il was run in
to coin. The robbers, alarmed at the
close watch kept upon their move
ments, separated and disappeared.
In May last three of the robbers,
without any Encouragement what
ever, and without the faintest sus-
picion that they were within hundreds
of miles of each other, met i'm a saloon
In Panamint. None of the trio had u
cent, and while they were discussing
the feasibility of stopping the Pana-
mint stage, one of the party said that
If he were in San Francisco he could
obtain the means to take him to the
spot where the 'plant" was, and raise
1t, suggesting at the same time that
they had been away 50 long from that
section of the country that the author
tiles had given up all hope Of either
finding the bullion or obtaining the
evidence upon which to rearrest them.
To make long story short, they final
ly found the means to reach San Fran
cisco. The remainder of the story we
quote from the San Francisco POSI- Of
the llth ultimo:
''As soon as they got here they
looked around for some one to furnish
them with money to 60 where the
bullion was hid, and after some diff
cultv managed to arouse the cupidity
of one Bailey, young man doing
business i'm Oakland. He furnished
them with money, and, in June last
they Travelled across the mountains,
and to their amazement discovered
that the bullion had been carried
away. They spent IA week or so in a
vain search for the treasure, and re-
turned to this city. On their way
down they concluded to swindie their
outside partner.
They either manufactured or OBJ
tanned possession OF bogus bar of bull
lion, with thin veneering of alumni
nun gold. This bar they pretended
to have raised from the cache, and it
was turned over to Bailey, but not un-
til he had paid $7775 in solid twenties
for it. The supposed bar of gold
Bailey kept hid away in this city for
several days, but concluding that it
would be safe i'm Oakland, put it in a
u satchel OH the Goth of July last. and
went over on the Oakland boat. 1t
appears the parties who had swindled
Bailey, anticipating trouble as soon as
the rascality was detected, kept track
| of Bailey's movements, and, learning
that he was going over on the boat,
dispatched three young men to seize
the satchel and throw it overheard.
The programme was followed out to
the letter.
| Bailey's attention was attracted
elsewhere, and in twinklins the
satchcl was snatched from his hands
and thrown into the bay. 1t can be
readily understood why Bailey made
no outcry. He carefully took in the
bearings of the spot where the satchel
dropped, and, failing to recover it,
boldly produced warrant for the ar
rest of the parties, charging them with
grand larceny in stealing bar of bull
lion valued at II, 800. They were ar
rested last night in Oakland, and gave
the names of William +. Williams,
Henry Thompson and James Langley.
Thompson is said to have respectable
| connections. In the court to-day the
accused waived preliminary examina-
ton for no other purpose than to shut
out the facts of the case.
| The cross-examination of one Of the
witnesses developed the fact that the
bar was bogus, which appeared to
greatly astonish the prosecuting wit.
ness. However, the counsel for the
defense said he wished to make no de-
fense before the Police Court, and
would go before the Grand Jury. The
court held the parties to answer in