The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-11-26

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Boyles' Nsrrattve Of . Searel
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Friend, Colonel McClung.
From the Cincinnati Commercial.
Lebanon, Ohio. Nov. 9.-Whe
Gen. William Walker, the WORLD
famous filibuster, faced the guns Q
executioners in TruxilIo. In Honduras
on the 18th of September, 1860, am
the smoke of the discharge had cleare'
awav and he lay q corpse on tn
bloody sward, there was one man VIII
, stood over his body knowing tn
secrets that had been his chief
through life. In this mans breas
was hidden piece Of paper that b.
deemed worth millions.
William Walker fancied that h
was born with q mission, and tina
that mission was to rule, and henc,
his wild disordered brain conceived
the project of taking to the high seas
looking for small Kingdoms that hs
might conquer. This chimerical
project took actual shape in 1858
when he fitted out an expedition con
sisting of about sixty men. snd sailed
from San Francisco for Central Amer
lea, pillaging Nicaragua, Honduras,
and Sonora. In 1856 he made an
other expedition. sailing from the
same port, and captured and concealed
a large amount Of property, but IN q
sanguinary incursion against Honduras
after much hard fighting on both
sides, the filibuster crew were made
prisoners, and Walker was court
martialed. He faced the guns calmly,
said that he only of all the prisoners
taken was to blame, had the atten-
dance of a Roman Catholic priest,
submitted to the bandaging of his
eyes, and died.
There was one man only. of all
those who were liberated and sent to
their different homes. that knew
exactly where the great filibuster's
fabulous wealth was hidden. The
man was Colonel of the expedition,
the trusted and confidential friend Of
Gen. Walker. His name was Col. j.
H. McClung, and his home was with
in a few miles of Louisville. XIV.
After remaining for q short time At
Truxillo after the shooting of his
General, Col. McClung came back to
this country, and settled down in his
old home in Kentucky. With him he
brought the chart which described
with mathematical precision the hiding
place of the immense treasure that
Walker had left behind.
Col. McClung resolved to hunt for
this wealth, and remaining quietly at
home attending to his duties as q
business man, and ever accommodating
a little money, he looked forward to
the day when he could be master of
sufficient money to fit out q small
to g to the Isle of Pines.
where the wealth was, and bring it
back in safety. In 1869, having
some money. he began to
put things in shape for the long looked.
trip. Two men, James E.
Hardacre and William X. Robinson,
whom he had fixed upon as his CON-
panions in this perilous and secret
trip, we're living a: San Antonio.
Texas, and to find them Col. McClung
vet out from Louisville, KY, on a
bright spring morning in 1869. His
wife hearing nothing from him for 90
ong a time, and knowing that he had
. large amount of money ON his per-
on, was in a state bordering on
unacy, when one day a letter, in a
TRANCE hand informed her that her
husband had died of fever in San
Antonio. Texas, and enclosed to her
check for $500, as being all that was
ound on his person. The wife
trongly suspected foul play, and
.arted Immediately for San Antonio.
When she arrived she could hear
othing of her husband. The man
tho had written the letter had signed
"Jsmes e. Hardacre," but she
ould find no one who knew such a
ian.
The next actor that / will introduce
ito the drama will be Capt. j. r.
'oyles, commander of the Gulf
Gamer Alabama, plying between
ensacola, Fla, and New Orleans. II,
ave this history from the Captains
whips, and Why this letter was
ritten from this interior place will
,pear further along,
One morning in the spring of 1864, &
ap:. Boyles had a very queer passen- s
r from Pensacola. The passenger d
as a tall, splendidly formed man, 4
about 40 years of age, {
but quietly dressed. His {
amer was very peculiar. He :
alked to the side of deck railing, {
ID gazed for many minutes intentIy o
wn into the blue waters beneath, v
en- he glanced toward the Captain, t,
that gentleman happened to be on e.
Ok, and made a movement rs b
ough he would approach and speak e'
tn him; but then he suddenly and n
most involuntarily changed his b
I'D, and wheeling upon his heel, he
8 off again. At length the Captain b.
X the man (who was registered as p
mes E. Hardacre) into his cabin. 60
e man said he knew where there al
s buried untold wealth, that he had CO
sely studied Capt Boyles's charac- d.
for some time, and that. after til
king few inquiries in New Or St
ms, be was satisfied that the Captain ",
8 the man for him. as
long and earnestly they talked. III
rdacre produced an old piece of in
,er, yellow, wrinkled, and badly VI
tilated This niece .of m oor am. On