The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-12-24
A BURIED TREASURE.
s5tores of Ancient Coins Fooontly
Unearthed.
aAurIed for Century and Accidentally
Discovered by DreIscrs - May
Have Belonged to Capt.
Kidd.

IN the huge buckets of mud dug out
.ryf the Lower and Windmill islands by
che dredgers' cndless-chain scoops there
have come to the surface quarts OF
silver coins whose dates Indicate their
ss.o1page a long time prior to the revolu-
rsissn, says the Philadelphia Record. A
ly,ernliarity Of the coins is that some
aAre very large, even of greater diameter
ssAan a trade dollar, while others are
.aizalIer than any denomination now in
...frcnlation, almost the size Of the
'-Sfaow's mite.
aeveraIaays ago the captain in charge
aof one OF the scows noticed. what be
tstought to be bright. shining dollars
.strspping from the scoops into the
rnaews and called the attention of the
~engfneer of the. dredging machine, de-
.cikfang that they were bringing up
syd&A and silver. The engineers reply
was that either tho captains eyesight
vs4s defective or that he was demented.
-Anter the days work had been COM
r8eted the scow's master went down
ssats the hold of the partially LOADED
vy,Esel and with a lantern collected over
s6s0o hundred and fifty coins of all de-
@soninations and sizes, and could have
z.reeTered as many more had it not
fse.en for the darkness and the impossi-
T,isSty of working while the vessel was
s,sMmg- about with the tides and winds.
Omitted States Inspector Pearson. who
sxss charge Of the spreading Of the ma
s.csiSs from the fulsometer to the
.G,znNnds at League island, had his at
5esctsoR called to the bright objects
shining through the material as it was
.esZaSharged and in a short time Sc
esSrred many specimens Among those
tmsna at the dumping grounds were a
.-sxlgxsr coin issued in 1880, foreign sill
casS coin the size of dollar marked
rs6s and another l742, a small dark
s.sdI marked 1913, and numerous small
a.sSDs on which the dates cannot be dis
ssiizsgIiishcd. All of the gold coins, which
AGE 3bout the size of ten-dollar gold
sEsse- have been found on the island,
.sss4a none have yet come to light from
EAas dumping ground, and they are sup
zsissed to have been separated from the
.E1,sa and sunk the pumps not having
ssssffrient capacity to reach the bottom
4zG the river.
The treasure las been located at the
~sa:irene southwesterly end, where the
essHnitarium was formerly located, on
TTlndsnill island, the only spot where
'SSs dredgcrs have done any work worth
=Syseaiking of 1t is believed that there
Nxsnuch more hidden treasure near the
exa7ne spot which will be recovered
vEsnen the dredges resume work in re-
HrSving the great harbor obstruction.
-Sss ono has yet been able to tell where
sshe coin came from. 1t must have been
nAnzSed there century or more ago, but
s,z.,csd many of those who have heard of
the discoveries believe that Capt. Kidd's
treasure is found at last. Many years
ago vessel arrived here from San Do
GpiDgo consigned to Stephen Girard with
"a cargo of coin which political refugees
&1@%3 stolen from the treasury of San Do
ssnirgo city and anchored directly off
Windmill island. Girard only received
;aSslaIt one-half of what was marked on
ssia. vessels manifcsts, and up to the
FEss@sant time nothing was known of the
whereabouts of the balance, and it is
supposed to have been stolen from the
aRtssssl and buried on the island, where
II lay until the dredgers turned it up.