The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-04

OF them ran and got a blanket and they
spread II out and put the gold IN II, care
fully examining the ground After they
had carried everything away they all
stood in front Of the frightened negro and
talked for some time In a low tone. lie
afterward learned, as he suspected az
tho time, that they seriously talked OF
cutting his throat and throwing him IN
the hole they had eXcaVated. James lucky
star prevailed and they led him to tho
road and bound him hand and foot ana,
a S he saws. threw him in a covered Wag-
on like a hog" He does not know how
many days and nights he spent IN the
wagon, but they did not turn him loose
until they had crossed the Rio Grande.
During the last two or three days OF inc
Journey they took the gag from his mouth
and unbound his hands. James says the
party consisted Of four men, boy and
one woman, all MeXicans. one of tho
men was very old man, and ne could
speak a little English. James thinks THIS
old man saved his life, and was the cause
of the generous treatment he uncXpect-
eddy received when they released MN.
This old man remained with James one
whole day at a little cluster OF adobe
houses a fow miles beyond the Rio Grando
after the wagons had gone away. they
had one good two-horse wagon, a lBht
hack and two saddle horses. Ihe old man
gave James $50 in United States gold
coin and advised him to go to Laredo,
which he told him was only Few miles
distant. The old man did not hesitate TO
tell James that they had been to Texas
on a gold-hunting expedition, ana tnat
they had found what they went after;
He said that he was more justly entitled
to the treasure than any other living
man, for he thought he was the only man
living who was a member OF the train
that lost the gold. He told James that no
was nearly 30 years OF age, ana that ne
had been trying to get TO Texas ever since
the close of the Mexican war. Tho other
members of the party were all members
OF the old mans family. Two or them
were his sons. From what James could
learn, he thinks they estimated the value
of the recovered gold at about $oVJOO
James after having endured the OLD
mans demOnstratiVe embrace ana part
ing blessing. reached Laredo IN Few
hours. where he boarded an express train
and came home, hugging ms w solu
pieces very closely. for he had more more
money in his pocket than ne had ever
had before in al his life,
A citizen of this county by the name OF
shane was a member OF the party which
went down into the bottom with James
to see the excavation that tne Me1 1i M
al one time had helped old man Bee 70
hunt for the lost treasure. Tie tod US
that the old man had walked over thdt
where the unfortunate treasure hunter
had cut bullets out OF the trees ana
where he had dug hole In the EARN not
twenty feet from the spot where more
scarcely two feet Of sand. Nearly every
one in town confirms James story as 70
the presence Of the Mexicans mere during
the last days Of April. The gentlemen
who owns the land where the gold was
found saws that he noticed the Mexicans,
and wondered why they remained campeu
on the roadside so long-three or -FOUR
days-and as the old story or the LOST
treasure fitted through his mind he had
a notion of watching them.
And now he wishes every hour m the
day and through all MS dreams AT ms NJ
that ne had watched them with all his
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