The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-21
The Felucca of Jean Laf1tte Said t.
Have Been LOcatsd.

| The Felucca Of Jean Lafltte Said to
Have Been Located.
Kenner (TeT) Special to PhiladelDhid Times.
1t is generally believed that party Of
treasure seekers on a recent night succeeded
in rescuing from the waters of the gulf a
| big quantity Of treasure contained in a
wreck which lay about mile and quarter
from the shore. This wreck is supposed to
have been that Of a felucoa belonging to
the Pride, the schooner of the pirate Jean
Latitte, once the scourge of these waters.
This feluoca, which the old records name
as the Pretty Nell, was being sent ashore by
| LATTE in 1910 after on encounter with a
| Spanish bark in which the Pride captured
, and burned the Spaniard, when the felucca
was sunk with all hands by shot from the
English ship Coronet. 1t is said that the
| Spanish vessel was bound for Peru, laden
with gold and silver coin. and that Lafitte
was sending this treasure ashore for deposit
in ole of his hiding places hy the Pretty
| Nell, and after her destruction lowered
about this coast for weeks seeking for the
spot where she had gone down, but failed to
find it, though he returned to the search
again.
Many have since sought the wreck in vain
| only to give up finally, but strong evidence
points to its discovery recently. For some
time past four strangers have been in town
| engaged in slyly questioning the people. and
fishermen in especial, concerning the old
story OF the sunken felucca. These men all
hired boat and thoroughly secured the
coast and water for distance OF several
miles up and down and out into the gulf.
On last Thursday large steam tug. the
name OF which can not be ascer aimed, ar.
rived and anchored about half mile be-
low the town. The four men were seen to
join her, and at night were seen dancing
over the water opposite the spot where the
tug was anchored and about mile and a
quarter from shore.
William Edwards, a fisherman, seeing a
commotion, rowed out in his boat to ascer-
tain the cause, when he was arrested at
some hundred yards away by a countrymen
In a skiff, who warhed him to keep low and
return to shore, emphasizing the command
by the display of two guns. He did So fol-
lowed closely by the men In the skiff. who
waited to see him land his boat on the sand.
Edwards said the tug was provided with an
electric light which was turned on the
water and which enabled him to see a man
in divers dress descending her side, and
pulleys and rope for hosting heavy bales to
the neck. Although he did not think it
prudent to venture out on the water again
he watched the tug from the shore all night,
and says they worked till daybreak, when
she disappeared in the direction of Port
Cavalo.
During the day pieces of worm-eaten
wood were picked up and were probably
fragments Of the wreck liberated by the
removal Of her heavy cargo. Watch was
kept for several nights after the tugs visit,
but she has not returned. so it is probable
that she was either di appointed in not find-
ing the credited treasure after searching the
old wreck, or else managed to remove it all
in one night.
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and will make thorough examination of
the spot. Advlces from all the ports on the
coast say that no vessel answering to the
description Of the tug has been seen to un-
load at any wharf, but it is thought she
must have landed or transferred to another
vessel her spoil at night or on some unfre-
quented part of the coast.