The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-02
A CAPTAIN KIDD PARIS STORY.
Legend About the S1O,OOO,OO0 Treas
ure Said to Have Been Buried.
New York World.


Every year or so the Paris papers tell
of some one who has been caught making
excavations in search of buried treasure.
The latest of these seekers for hidden gold
to his sanity. He claims that the spirit OF
James III had appeared TO him and revealed
the hiding place of the great fortune he
had secreted long ago, and that he was just
on the point of finding 1t when the police
interrupted him.
This Treasure of Triel." as it is called.
is one of the most tenacious of such
legends that cluster about Paris. The story
goes that James ii, the uethroned King of
England who fled across the channel to
France and became the guest of Louis
XIV. had for his residence the chateau of
st. German. James III, SO some historians
say, was less the guest than the prisoner
guarded, but he succeeded nevertheless in
causing to be constructed subterranean
passageway between his palace-or rather
his prison-and a little house that he had
bought i'm the village of Triel- 1t was in
this retreat that the exiled monarch tasted
each day a few hours of peace and liberty
without the fear OF being followed by the
spies of Louis.
Before returning to London this last OF
the house of Stuart is said to have hidden
away the crown of Scotland. in which shose
a diamond greater than that known as the
Regent diamond which once sparkled i'm
the crown of a French King. With this
magnificent stone there were other splendid
jewels which were most precious TO the
house of Stuart The total value of these
gems the legend estimates, at no less than
so, 0c0, 0c0 francs. or 100000 There were
many sacks OF shining goid and there were
many costly gems which the loyal Scottish
mobiles had sent as pledges of fealty to their
exiled King.
Upon his deathbed. the legend continues.
James III gave TO a great French noble, in
whom he had the utmost confidence, a pa
per in which was indicated the means OF re-
covering the treasure OF the Stuarts, but
this French noblenian himself died
soon after withcu. having dared
to make use OF the precious docu-
two people the responsibility which he had
found too heavy for himself alone. As he
lay dying he tore IN two pieces the precious
bit of paper on which was written the d.
rections for finding the treasure. Then
he called separately the two persons he
and gave to each one OF the pieces of the
document
The history of these two halves OF this
bit OF paper, how they were lost and found,
how they served TO guide searches in which
fifty years and more. many hundreds OF
make a fair-sized book. But one fact re-
mains. the treaure has not yet been found.
Even though this hidden wealth has not
been found Ii has proved source OF
steady income TO the fortune-tellers. who
are numerous in Paris Hardly day passes
but one OF these '.pythonesses'' Is called
upon TO raise the ghost OF James III and ex-
tort from him the secret which he has
guarded so well. Curiously enough. these
seers state that the kingly shade Will con-
verse quite freely regarding the size of the
boxes he put them in, and other inter-
esting details. but will never consent TO
let slip the word which shall point the
way 10 fortune for the anxious seeker.
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