The sun., 1883-12-16
A PROFESSIONAL HUNTER,
SEEKING TREISrRE IND lost PROP
ERIY IN ODD PLACES.
Digging for Gold All Along tho Atlantic
Const-A Long search for Mare who.e
Teeth were Plugged with Diamonds.

tho writer, aS no stopped tno HORSE ana wagon
to let curious figure on the long drive on tho
south Staten Island shore slip by.
The individual inques,on was bentway over
and. when looking UP sdewise showed n re-.
markablc physiognomy. \ face blackoned hv
exposure to the sun. and distorted until all eyi.
dcnco of Intelligence seemed to have disRp.
ponred. over tho low forehead and sunkop
eyes hung great masses OF tangled and mat.
ted hair protected by n silk hat that was tls
original type OF tho kinda head covering 50
dentcd. worn. and shiny. that 1t seemed to he
part of its owner. The rest of the old mans ap
pnrel was OF the same lot and had u flavor VI
Evacuation Day
Hes working the south beach" continued
my Informant. i've known him for years
Hos mad on the subject Of finding buried
treasures. Capt. Kidd. and what not. Looks as
though ho doesn't know anything. but that's
where you would be mistaken. He is really
man Of more than ordinary intelligence though
outwnrdy an idiot. first met him on the
Maine coast. where he was digging for soma
gold that he believed had been slowed away
but whether he found any or not don't know
He has money think to live on. or else ha
finds something to keep him going"
An hour later the writer and his companion
turned down u road tha. led to tho south beach,
and. walk ing NJ the beach, soon found tho old
n.n,"t WIG r'n"SnxGn m his as11,ntn,anrS r wiz,
same lay" he said. shutting up one eye: but
know yc nin't," he continued. with ,ccon,or.
hard to say I'm u Down Easter and ,, where "
mouth MOI Of the KennebeS about the arst i ,hrg l'
kin rememhsr wns my father a,plonghin' nra
schooner. with 1t, and lied lenvin, quite for.
| tune. and the las, words o. sense he about snii
Ss ers l's" ~s IN s ns much
said he. is nl thr money they used 500 years
IT, ,to, tsom"wh"rN n, thnts s9r;n =,
10, q stun. and re been at it ever since, y"i
might might wonder how ! git my clues We'll, thcv
onses: Hs Vas on acute sort 2 lay. Hs worked
age thief has slowed something away and can,
cit it until ne gits out if he's locked IN So he
rretendin' that he wns a minister Of tho Cos.
pei, and all the, time ,a-pumrin' tn" men.
Int wouldn't trust him, and tlan he'd out " "i; Will;
references, and agree to get them out Of limbo
for share Of the nrocceds.
| We'll. yOn gentlemen would hardly belinva
it. but when ,ust lined him he had over fifty
clues Of buried s, sst,nfrmrlnnders tn, English q
cost too much @ How sSs Wei % %"ros ."'.'Fi ana. In
he went hv-s.ruck chap who was in for twen-
ty years and his statement was trat he'd been
a" 'N We bG brn. wNs 1sFSsc
worth Of diamonds. There was five stones md
whGrG do YOU snnoss they we're The Cnnsr
toninn mare called Rose, that belonged to n
s,ahemnn in little Canada town near tho
started after the mare. found the stabIcman,
and he'd sold her 10 farmer in place called
sold her to New York citv dealer for brood
mnrcv His name WIS aS. Smith and he lived in
TWO months to, run him down. and when wc
did he'd sold the mare. down in Jersey. and
sr she "a c"Eld her nreA sn but Mos n
,hn rnGn her nn Gr tried to sIy
no! We got in 4, nll right and held the ma,os
nnern Eyery 20, ono was ans Su
TssGy nTs sns s ns ali Ss5 SrssS the n
been na swallowed; 50 We didn't pay expenses: -
examine him. It's beSn rnyed nll along the
line. As was saayn'. I,,sot got out Of this and
yarns: or stories about buried things. and when
made up my m ind there was any truth In it.
located n,. what thought was the spot and went
But howdo you locate the treasure ?" asked
We'll that's n secret OF the trade" was tho
ronIy. lit took me ten years to learn. and
wfn aont TvH ocne " %nJ
there's where it, takes science. II you hide
something in hole in a tree, when it grows
times 1t leaves a kind of n slit in the bark and
Indian h9tchet in a tree that the owner had
stuck in the bark and forgot Another time I
Sa ' had tTG2n a2%r Of Slowed m S T N
hole, or had climbed in and been struck by
2a oa oe nnG the h
cred the skeleton. No COLDS scarce. though I
have found coin in trees.
I've dug every county on the coast from
Ssen more 70 Sissin n n jersey and less fsaS foupd
| fhnn In, Sntr fpr hn hoo
place worth nbont $50 and one day a chap
done? Why, the owner bought up a lot Of old
coin, nut it in an old boy. and buried it. Then
" FhrS 1 s hns ama ssHw hs The here Gsn
more there, bought It ur ms soon as possible
seIs%p hs% bsop ss 9f sF snd T s os s
"on the Maine coast than anvwhere. On an
island. about mile around. ! made my best
M little R haRor aI"H put n ne and isHhhhs ihs rs
thing thi, that struck my fancy was two large 20.
about Gtty ynrts away, SAYS to myself i
my stun they'd look for pnts to remsmber it
hy and them there limbs is iist the things:' so
pns% ann anS a"r enehs I ead" din" on"
and around for about twenty foot. and after
chea The hn nn snr'
II out careful md thought my fortune wa,
ns bh %nn TO- pu the a
papers-dee's and the like. ] reckon-all
mon'dy. and not n word in them that You could
: liable papers once"
You said Just now it was your best find"
said the renortor.
! Worst. meant, my worst 1t was" said tho
Oh man nothin' hut old papers"
Il heard you deposited over $5 900 in gola
, bars abont that time" we continued.
~ never So. IS 900 in my life," replied the
old man. evidently somewhat confused.
You've got me mixed with another party.
mint seen him Tor years and / reckon a ho'.
dead, He Thought tho spirits told him iha,
there was treasure in the rock hack nj Lynn 81
; he ding and blasted for twenty years or NOR.
and and there's cave there now that's a sight 10
. the old man closed his wicked aye. "he had
hors" sense enough To charge twenty -hve re nts
, as how it paid"
Made n Heroine by tho Abduction OF hes
Cktld.
SIOUX CRY, Iowa Dec. l5-Mrs. Todd. living
near this city abducted her eighyear old daughter un