The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-11-18
CAPT. KIDD'S MONEY CHEST.
REASONS ron THISKINo THzr N
rs NOT RECOVER4BLE.
An Account by whi-psrinE Henry worth,
Sos OF Ola Pineknot Jasper Worth, Of
What Actually Became OF ~.

BARNEGAT PARK, Nov. l7.-"So they say
they've found Cap'n Kidd's chist o. money
some'rs down along the Delaware, do theyf
Well. they're a dad-dam no such a thing, an
you can tell EN- | eaid so!'
This was tho positive language Of David Worth
better known ns King Dsvid-Sage Of Bayviile
and oracle OF all this fragrant corner " the
south Jersey pines. A good deal OF history has
been written about the Jersey coast. from the
heights Of Navesink to the sand plains Of Cape
May; hut rs none Of 1t Is according to the way
King David Worth has It down, It Is all wrong,
From the time. something like two hundred
years ago. that civilization first struck the Jer.
scy pines and started in to teach the untutorcd
savage It's gentle ways by opening a barrel Of
rum, there have been Worths on record here
and hercabout. History was made very fast In the
early days OF the Jersey coast, faster than any one
could possibly have written 1t. but not too fast
for the observant worths of those generations 10
imprint it on the tablets of their memory.
There were bloody pirates cruising TO and fro in
the ofing; heartless wreckers Turing rich laden
craft TO the treacherous and fatal reefs Oft Bar.
ncgat: Tory cowboys scourging the settlements
with bloody hands; crafty bands OF robbers
with unknown haunts in the deep, dark pines.
forcing tribute here. there. and everywhere,
lurking Indians. with knife and tomahawk,
keeping the land in terror. There were
no historians on hand to take down
and record the doings Of all these
lively elements of early-day society
in the Jersey pines, but there were wortls.
And they took things down. EVERYTHING. from
passing events 20 rum. Especially did Whisper
ing Henry Worth and Pineknot Jasper Worth
and Clamshell Joe Worth and Charcoal Peter
Worth. They we're all there. But the greatest
Of them all. according to King David Of COM
temporaneous Worth, was whispering Henry.
He was my grandfather's uncle.' says King
David, and dad-dam IL II don't seem as II
there wasn't never anything happened hat he
didn't remember somethin' about that nobody
else had ever heard Of"
Now all the things that the past generations Of
worths took note of and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
cially the loads OF lore that Whispering Henry
Worth had In the storehouse of his memory
are vested In King David Worth this present
day. Even King David's brother. Jerky John,
admits IT,. So when King David. having heard
the rumor that Capt. Eidd's long-sought treas
ure had been at last uncovered somewhere on
the Delaware coast, denies so positively that
anything OF the sort has happened, 1t lie well
worth while to listen to him.
II only wish whisperin' Henry Worth was
hero now" said King David. Wouldn't he
GRIM Grin! He'd roar a-laughin'. An red
point over toward Money Island an say-but
he'd say it in a whisper-he always said every
called him Whisperin' Henry. He'd say, point
ing toward Money Island:
anywhcre's else but there, but it sin't there
"Then. IL you should ask him where It WA
Melted in hell long ago,
little %startiin', but it's so. an folks ought to
know II, an, then as like as not they'd quit
RRiddr'ss treasure. they'll never see a dollar Of
II: | don't know, though; !, Some Of EN- may.
NhisnpriD' Henry Worth was nv grAndfather'a
uncle. lie told grandfather about 1t, and grand:
Iaenes So ' Sou s .s. there sn Cant MG be- any S dou iSey about bout
YondsE'. Money Island; .tiokin, up IN shark
seen what .whisperin' Henry Worth seen on
that island in the dead o might. an ever got OF
on the island, a. hS told my grandtath.r. an
' Worth ' wa, % l@hisperip' Hsnry's fasssr sai and
VI sssf ,'9as saaas':; father s9' S.. ' sSaut ~ the only only
nut. One day no found that he was goIn' to die.
Sa de- Se DOWN ror re win.sp that what Killed f him o wss
a barrel O. rum fallin' on him. while he was
Worth, was a nephew OF OF PiineEnOt Jsspsr's.
knot jasper died tiamsheil Joe tod grand.
father, an grandfather told father an mother,
a run t aYfsll iGid on mo TO P 5ha = 1s "s Jasper 1h that Ssf fiil. q
him, but that IL was the contents o. sey'ral bar
rel' hut 81 rum nn SissMin, w iRs9 h ofa 'h Pin ssd Son J. Il
found he was goin' to die. he sent for Whisper
""'Henfy.' says he, I hain't never said nothin,
to you nor nobody else about II, cause wanted
70 have 1t all myself. but As l won't hardly have
] thought i might Jest as Wen turn II over 70
you; a 4 E yssr ago, HAHN SNd dom done . : l little v, EFe: HIN
other goods that l didn' want to give anybody
the bother Of inquirin,, about, so rowed ,em up
n hole 70 burr, 'em in, when l heard the sound OF
oars. Hooked up an seen a weasel layin' offA
was sSs swtu ! llgofln. L. ~ me-. asfu ever sen seen
faces, and white teeth glistenin'.
-" Pirates " says /. shiverin'.
boat. dug a big hole. and buried 'sm In IL As
they they ,S stood odt there e iiS one e; o the I.G men It, the wicIsde..
peercd this way an that way.
"'Nowr he says. All together. me bully
m they sung this cheerin' dltty,
-.ohl under the skull an the crossbones nag.
untuIled 20 The howiln, gales: .
An laugh at their dyia' walls
81 5S' lie sa asass. si ipnis s!1 pP..l.
An dead men tells no tales
An dead men tells no taiesi
-'ohL mothers bsss u. 70 spare thsir babes
An we send 'em TO salty graves
An we dote on their means,
An we gloat on their groAnl.
A. they sink 10 the oceans caves
Down deep TO the oceans cavesi
"'I seen the face o. that ugly boss pirate plain.
Henry, who do you think he WASP
~ don't know says Whisperin' Henry.
"'Capn kiddN says Pineknot Jasper. An
them was his treasures they buried. They're
there yet. cause I've always ben afraid 10 90 an
dig 'em up. Go an git 'em"
dam.
',whisperin' Henry didn't say nothin' to no.
body, OF course, an la a week or two he puts his
shovel an pick in his boat an rows TO Money
Island. lt was late at night, cause he didn't
want nobody TO follow him an soc what was
goin' on, lie found the place on the island where
he calculated the treasure was LAWN hid, an ne
began 20 dig. lie hadn't dug more'n a minute
when he heard the sound OF oars. lest as old
PineknQt Jasper had. lie looked up an he SEQ
a vessel at anchor not fur away, an some men
rOXiu' in a bOaI toward the island