Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-02-04
Henderson's Hidden Treasure.

he used To sit for hours and gaze OH
INTO the back yard, stood two SINAI
crepe myrtle trees, about three fee
apart. II was between these two tree
about three feet beneath the surface
surrounded by wall made of bricl
and lime rock. that the pot of gold Ia,
buried.
Nearly dozen year have rolled b,
nee last the old man sat and gazcd
at at that window
During all those years, people have
wondered whore he concealed the
thousands Of dollars he was known Ia
ave boarded up during life time.
That that window commanded n
,,ew of the spot where lay his hidden
treasure, was the general belief among
lis neighbors, and many an observation
was taken from that window in the
nope Of finding it,
Mrs Henderson said that the last
nat she ever saw of that glttering
Hile of gold, was when her husband
Carried it out ofthe house some time
before his death, in an earthcn lar. To
place it where sneak thieves. bank
wreckers and burglars could never find
it, and She knew not where he put il.
The day before the Charleston earth
.nake, the old man called his daughter
Mamie, To his bedside, and feebly en-
CURED il anyone else was in the room.
On being told that Miss Lncey Tay-
Or was there he said:
well wait until tomorrow, and |
will tell you something that will do
you good when am gone"
To him tomorrow never came. That
night his eyes were closed in death.
md his lips were sealed forever.
The secret that would have lifted his
laughter and her then widowed mother
rom abject poverty into luxury and
Independence, was never revealed.
Tomorrow" the hand that had nc.
oumuated and buried that gold, cold
and stiff, was laid across the old man,
breast, and consigned to mother earth.
sad. lonely, and penniless, returned
the widowed mother and orphaned
from the funeral to the rick
'ty old two story building on Tallahas-
zee street, which had been moved from
Newport to Crawfordvile when this
lace was first made the county site.
md had sheltered the family for years.
rs a store and dwelling house.
That night came the great CONFUSION
If nature that rended mountains and
cities, and the old two story
rick building, shaken and careened
vas barely left standing, but the wild
w and daughter, having no other
ZONE, remained there, while they, as
listed by county clerk J. J. Harrcll and
Judge W. T. Duyal, diligently searched
nd dug for the gold that should have "
een theirs. Il
Failing in every effort to find their !
idden wealth, and forced to face d
ROWING world, on self reliance alone, :
he old home place was abandoned and
old for taxes, the widow and daughter
,oved away, and the gold was partially 0
Jrgotten.
Yesterday morning, when Ex.Sherif l
lligood resumed hauling away the
lumber Of the old building, e
hich was torn down last week. he dis.
Dyered that some person or persons
ad been there during the dead hours A
{ the previous night and rfiade consid- Z
rable excavations. The fresh dirt C
nd all been carefully put back and O
1sered over with dry leaves and old
'rfiber, but the efforts to conceal the
'idnight work were not cutie success n
H. q
\ crowd soon gathered and began a
Investigate; the pit that had been
ug and refilled, was about ten feet
4.