New-York tribune., 1885-07-09
GENERAL DI CESNOLA VINDiCATED.
1.-THE TIMES" DIsCREDITED-AN AFFIDAVIT BY
ONE or THH wORKMEN.

THE TIMES" DlsCREDITED-AN AFFIDAVIT BY
ONE or THE wORKMEN.
"The New-York Times yesterday reprinted from
" The Pail Mall Gazette an article recent
tions in Cyprus by Max Ohneiasch Richter which is
intended discredlt the discoveries OF General di
Cesnola The article has several filings at General di
| CcsnOla, this among others:
| Careful investigations of all the ground about
Curium. where Cesnoa reports his discovery OF the
celebrated Curium treasure, have been made by MIR.
Richter, and he has found and taken up the mosaic
which Cesnola states that he broke up and destroyed
in order to enter the treasury but treasury vault
gr0tto OF kind exists, nor are there any ndica
tions of excavation the spot Mr. Richter regards
the reality of the Curum treasure as an antique de-
posit TO be absolutely disproved-a result which may
reconcile English archeologts the loss of the collec
ton at NewYork since with the authenticity OF
this collection of jewels the exceptional value OF the
| Cesnola collection disappears
1t says also thai Mr.. Richter is employed by the
| British Museum
General di Cesnola who is at his country house
at Newcastle, Westcheser County, said yesterday to
TRIBUNE reporter: have letters from officers of
| the British Museum stating emphatcally that the
photographer Richter, who poses an erudite
explorer In Cyprus has never been employed by the
| British Museum. and never will be. The General
showed the reporter translation OF an affidavit made
| by Greek workman tor several years employs ed by
| General d Cesnola i'll Cyprus Theochars Constan-
tinon in the presence of j. g. Caoutzes. Vice Consul
of Greece and two other witnesses. The affidavit was
made In March. 1888, at Lmassol, before Is. Mari,
Register OF the Industrial Court The translation
made Ia the office of d. n Botass Consul General Of
Greece who certifes that it correct. In the affidavit
| Constantinon describes how In 1879 he and some
other workmen went to place OF Episcopis called
| Curium." and there made excavations, General di
Cesnola who directed the work occupying tent. He
tells how they opened large tomb at Curium, contain
! ing four compartments. and found In them several
hundred articles of gold, silver and bronze, such
goblets vases necklaces bra celes. large and small
sealsones earrings, rings perfume bottles sceptras
and other objects OF metal as we'll clay" He recog
nzes several engravnes In General nj Cesnoas book
Of many Of these Objects and
mentions other objects found that are not engraved in
| the book.
| He adds al think all the gold objects found
| in the first room Many silver kettles were found in
the second room. but they closely fastened to
another that would have been difficult to deach
them without breaking | the Consul. in his
efforts detach them break Two OF them. In one OF
said found many rusty kettles or large pots
| OF bronze, while in another we found beautiful
vases Of clay with pictures them. One of these,
which page 333 OF the book. was found there
many Fragments Ii Ia big lie that myself or any
of the 200 dggers employed by Mr.. di Cesnola would
or could dig wherever We pleased. We only dug
where Mr. iii Cesnoa told us to dig
The original affidavit in Greek is in the archives OF
the Greek Consulate-Genera