The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-10
.ALES OF CAPT. KIDD'S BURIED TREASURE.
STORIES or GOLD FOUND WHERE
HIDDEN BY THE PIRATE KING

shortly after With or without the Objects
OF their search"
Frederick q. Bosss, n merchant OF Ber-
muda and native OF Dt. George, now do
ing business there, said:
TT ID q matter OF history that theee is
lands were freauented BY pirates, who. for
better security. buried their treasure In
the ground rather than take It with them
on their dangerous voyages, but expecting
to return and unearth It when their work
was done. During the centuries millions OF
pounds have been buried in the EARTH and
most Of II still lies hidden there. The
blockade runners left a great deal Of money
buried here. In the last years Of the block
ade we were visited by yellow fever. and
Of the hundreds who died most were
strangers All crews on vessels were paid
here in gold and silver. and. as this was
bulky and heavy to carry there was only
one reasonable supposition about 1t, which
was that Il was buried here for safety.
''Such discoveries have been kept as se-
cret a. possible. because such findings
must 10 by law to the crown. where they
are held FOR the owners for long time.
After years Of waiting half OF what re-
mains goes to the finder and the rest to the
crown. Prise money was distributed here
In the war Of 1878. have been told stories
Of many findings here In st. George.
John Fox, once an alderman, master
carpenter and shipwright. died in the '7Os.
He was Of undoubted integrity and truth
fulhess, having the confidence OF all the
people. He told me that several times
when he was young he had noticed a
stranger etrullink about on the north shore.
below the military cemetery, where the yell
low fever dead were buried before the
close OF the civil war. Suspicion was
aroused. az he was shy Of notice and acted
mysteriously. Apparently he was in quest
Of something, and he was tincommunica-
tive. A short time after he disappeared,
and II was found he had gone to New York.
"A week after his departure Alderman
Fox, with some friends one day, land
ing on the shore from fishing excursion,
noticed the cave called Judy's Hole and
one OF the party suggested that they take
a look into 1t. This cave Was near the GEM
etery, and II was In this vicinity that the
stranger had been seen most frequently
while on the island. Within the cave they
found an iron safe, which had been forced
open and its contents carried away. Near
by waA hole In the ground, from which 1t
had been dug up by the stranger.
II know Heller well. and knew all
about buying the French vessel and sailing
away to st. John. N. b. In st. John the
tide rises and falls forty feet. One day
after Heller's arrival there his French
bark. the Halcyon, had her stern broken
by the toe, ana Sno was Sold by ner
owner The buyer broke her up and found
in the run many bars Of silver. but just
to what value no man but the finder ever
knew. Heller bought large tract Of land
near st. John. called 1t Hellerup and infiu-
enced many Of his countfymen to SO there
and SETTLE"
The mayor Of St. George. Joseph Ming
Hayward, was clerk of the council for thr-
~ years, and for the last twelve years he
has been mayor. He Ii man of undoubted
veracity, and an encyclopedia of knowledge
relating to the Bermudas.
Buried treasurer" said the mayor.
"Well, sir, think that the soil of this coll
ony IL the richest in the world, outside a
gold or a diamond mine, and even as far
as those are concerned the earth here
contains gold and silver already coined
by various nations. I have heard a great
deal about the finding of buried treasure
and believe that most of what was buried
still remains here in the earth, Ell? The
relations which I have held toward the
people of st. George have constituted me
the last person to whom a finder of buried
treasure might come and tell Of his luck.
because 1t would be my duty to seize it
for the CROWN