The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-11
BURIED FoRrUNB FOUND.
Hoyt Gets a T3p from a Convict ana /
Digs Up $4,000 in Gold Nugget
From ne PAfIaesslDAfa Record.

OlRS Up = 10000 IN EOlG n O8SoS-
From he PAiIaeEelDhfG Record.
Warden Hoyt, Of the Colorado state
psnitentiary. IS in this city on his way home
from successful search after hidden
fortune in Huntington county. He re-
ceived the information Of the buried tTeas-
ure from a convict in the state prison at
Cs-on City, Col, who had beel sentenced
70 a life term for murder, and who died
few weeks ago. This convlcs
was James Hoover, a well-known resi-
dent OF Franklin county twenty years ago
In 1874 Hoover, to aveugs a wrong done
to his sister by a physician Of Franklin
county, shot and killed. him. Before he
could be unprecedented he fed, finally locat-
ing at one Of the numerous mining camps
| in Colorado. There he met q man named
George Simpson, Of Ohio, and the two,
after joining fortunes, finally struck II
rich. When the two had amused con
siderable fortune in gold dust and nuggets
Simpson fell III. and Hoover dsoampsd
| with all their wealth. Fearing to remain
| longer in that part Of the country, he de-
! clde1 70 come east again ard brave the
chances OF being arrested for that murder
GOLD NUGGETS TIED Up IN A BAG.
The wealth he brought with him con
sisted partly Of gold nuggets, valued at
| 10000, tied in a canvas bag. Hoover
ACA+iA Aie Attl AAlJfbl AEOilA AAAA
county to McConnellstown, Huntingdon
county, and ne went IN search of them, but
his search proved unavailing, and he left
| McConneAstoWn and started in the direction
Of Alexandria, ten miles distant When
half this distance had been covered Hoover
became very weary with the weight of bis
treasure and, stopping by the way
| eide on the farm of Michael I.
Brenneman, he hid his nuggets beneath the
! roots OF a white oak tree. he then made
careful draft Of the surrounding country,
! entering into the minutest details, and after
| familisFiZing himself with the surroundings
| resumed hls journey. lie stopped at the
adjoining farm house Of George Miller,
where he remained all night, and obtained
| the names OF the owners Of the near-lying
farms which were included in the diagram
of the locality where be had secreted his
! treasure, thus perfecting his description Of
| the place.
IoovER's SECOND MURDER
HOover's fruitless search for his parents
continued until the latter part Of the year
! 1873, when he returned to Colorado with
out taking with him the gold nuggets which
| he had buried on the Brenneman farm. On
his second journey to Colorado ne encoun-
tered Simpson, his former partner, whom he
had robbed, and at firsO sight b5uh opened
fire on each other, the fraces resulting in the
killing of Simpson. For this Hoover was
! arrested, tried and ssn9 TO the state peni-
| tSntlaIy, at Canon City, for life. After
serving ten years there he died last month.
Besides the diagram where he had hid
den his treasure in Huntingdon county
eleven years previously, Hoover left an
| autobiography and "a viii, in which he be-
| queathed to Warden Hoyt of the Canon
City penitentlary and to his own father,
should the letter be found. all his possess
ions, which consisted principally of the
buried gold nuggets. Armed with the nee
essary papers Warden Royt come east,
found Hooveris father IN q remote part OF
Franklin county, and q week ago the two
arrived at Huntingdon in search of the
buried treasure. Going to McConnellstown
| they followed up the route taken ten years
ago by James Hoover, and by careful in
quiry located in general way the place
where tae gold was hidden. On Tuesday
Of last week they reached the house of
| Michael 7. Brennenan, and upon exhibit
ing to him the draft of the ground found,
to their Joy, that their search was about 10
be rewarded, for Farmer Brenneman in
stantly recognized the draft as a diagram
of his property.
THE F&RMRR's EYES BULGED OUT.
| TIE old farmers eyes were then opened
to their fullest capacity when he learned
from the strangers the object Of their visit.
| There, within 1e0syards of his home, where
be had cooled his. heated brow on countless
| occasions beneath its grateful shade, stood
| the white oak tres under whose projecting
roots was hidden veritable mine Of wealth.
| why" said the aggrieved old farmer,
'when they.told me this it fetched a kind
| of fzEle over me when remembered that
l need only to have s6Fetched my hand out
to gain fortunew And the old mans be-
wilderment wassth noticeable as he told
| his story. a. f'''-,.,-l,-'-
Leaving MIR, Byennsn1an, as he says, stu
pefed BY their startling recital, Warden
| Hoyt and, the old man Hoover repaired to
the foot Of bhezwhite oak tree along the
roadside, and there, beneath its overlapping
| roots, but little covered by the soil, they
unesrthed the golden treasure which eleven
years JAMES Hoover, the, fugitive, had
hidden. The will. the diagram and
the autobiography were all shown
| to Mr. BrehDeman, and bore ample
evidence of their commences aud lie
gality. George Miller, the ne.ghboring
farmer who. entertained James Hoover
over night is dead, but his widow remem-
oered distinctly the circumstances Of the
mysterious strangers brief visit of eleven
| years ago, and the many conjectures that
were then made concerning his searching
| inquiries II persons aud places. The value
OF the recovered treasure is gotten from
the estimate given Of it in James Hoovsrs
| viii, which places it at about $4,000
! CUTICURA REMEDIES.