The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-05-21
AFTER PIRATES GOLD.
Two Men Are Now Digging Hard
For II at Lynn. Mass.
Mediums Have Said II Is In Mrs. Aliens
Back Yard and They Want II.

LYNN, May 21.-Residents near Pleas
ant street are much interested in tn,
operations of two men who are digging
nights in a vacant lot at the rear of II
Pleasant street, in the hopes OF finding
buried treasure.
Henry Clough and Frank Blye are the
hunters, both spiritualists, led to their
work by revelations made them by many
test mediums in Lynn and other cities,
who claim to have seen in their frances q
little old man, looking like a spanish
pirate, carrying to that spot bags of gold
and OF precious stones and there burying
them.
Both Clough aud Blye place implicit
confidence in these stories. Some three
years ago search for treasure was made In
this place, but the work was soon aban-
doned. Now Clough says, q systematic
searchers did not dig deep enough nor
long enough to finu anything, and he and
his partner are at work every night, the
work being witnessed nightly by large
numbers OF interested spectators.
Lynn has always been favored place
with those who seek the buried treasure
of Captain Kid. Hiram Marble, under the
guidance of the spirit of old Tom Veal,in
his day one OF the pirate bano, worked
with pick and gunpowder in Dungeon
rock, and left a winding excavation of
some 200 feet into the solid rock, as mon
ument to his belief in spiritualtsm.
The Pleasant street "treasure ground,
is the property of Mrs. Abbie M. Allen.
herself Splritualist to some extent, who
has offered the two men half Of what they
find. Her husband was Horace +. Allen.
Ten years ago, she says, he dreamed
thrice In succession of vast treasure
buried meath large fiat stone deep in
tae ground, between cherry and peach
tree.
He.began to dig, she says, and when he
had removed some six feet of earth, he
found a stone, but II was so deeply en-
bedded In the ground that he was unable
to raise ii. He managed to lift one end q
bit, witA-a crowbar, but saw nothing
under the stone and so ceased his work.
Soon after he died. Mrs. Allen tells of
hideous sounds heard from the orchard
at midnight on the night before death
came, sounds that she thinks came from
the spirit of the man murdered on the
ground where the treasure was buried, for
she has read books Of pirhtical careers,
and learned that when the old rovers OF
the sea buried treasure they always killed
a man and buried his body there that his
spirit might guard the chest from profane
hands.
Shortly after tho death OF Mr.. Allen,
Mrs. Dillingham;, medium of Connects
cut, In trance, revealed that Allen would
have found gold had he dug deeper. Mrs.
Allen has since caused some excsvating
ON her land in search of this stone, bur
has never found it, and she now thinks
that some ghostly agent may have 70
moved il.
= Many. Lynn mediums have declared that
the treasure is there, and Mrs. Allen has
had many offers to purchase the land, and
has been asked to allow digging there,
httf Gh Ia Qf m N a q n In
whatever is. found.
Clough and Blye have excavated for .
distance of "a feet trench six feet deep.
Theysintend to dig over the whole lot, IL
need be, for they thoroughly believe that
treasure is hidden there. The work has
created no little sensation in the neigh
borhood, and now worthy matfons late at
night tell their children stories of ghosts
and of Tirate bands to send the youngsters
to bed early.