The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-03
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posed to be buried, to detective.
Nothing was found in his pockets to in
dictate where any relatives live, and he
has never talked about family afalrs'
Before the notary had time to put pen
to the paper GIassman dropped dead
The treasure was cached in 1864 by
gang known as the Reynolds gang,
headed by Jim and John Reynolds, two
of the worst desperadOes that ever held
up and murdered. The Reynolds broth
ers claimed to hold q commission un-
der the cOnfederacy. They carried the
flag of the Richmond government ana
had organized nearly 200 men, all Wen
known and desperate characters IN
Teas. In 1S63-64 from Texas they
marched to New Mexico, on their way
TO Colorado. planning to capture the
state or wage a disastrous guerilla
warfare, taking up men Of the same
STAMP on their way, whose adVentur-
Gus dispositions would lead them TO
join the invading forces,
The Work Of Holding Up
The first outrage was the holding up
Of q. Mexican wagon train on the Santa
-Fe train The guerillas secured gold
dust and government bonds to the
amount of 500 600. and the first stage
raid was stained by blood. Several Of
the wounded were left behind.
Thus weakened, the force came north
into Colorado. and where Colorado
| Springs is now. struck into the noun
tains for the South Park Many had
| deserted and the command was re-
duced to scarcely more than a score.
1t was winter, and the sufferings the
! dasperadOes experienced in crossing
the mountains still more reduced the
ranks They were a bare dozen when,
near Fairplay. they held up q stage
coach and robbed the mail sacks. the
/ passengers and chopped the stage to
| pieces.
Proceeding across the Park and into
/ Platte canyon, they held up another
/ stage. Colonel ScnivingtOn led troops
! from Denver to run down the gueril-
! las. In their hurry to escape, the con-
I federates buried the treasure in a cave
near the headWaters Of ElkO creek.
/ They went south. but at a battle near
| Geneva gulch they were surrounded
I and finally surrendered.
On The pretext that they attempted
! to escape on the journey to Fort Lyon,
! they were lined up and shot by the
! sergeant Of the company. The mas
! sacre occurred on Cherry creek, not
/ far from Denver.
When jim Reynolds, the sole sur
vivOr Of the only attempt ever made
to wrest the territory from the Union,
was dying, he told a pal Of his where
the money was hidden and drew a dia-
gram. The man, with the map in his
possession, organized a party to search
/ for the treasure but when they got
into the vicinity they found that a
forest fire had swept over the district
soon after the treasure had been bur
/ led. destroying all marks. They told
the story afterwards.
This is the treasure which Glassman
has been seeking. The farmer heard
the story and bought the place quietly.
This was early in the '70s, and since
then he has lived there almost in sOli-
tude. with one thought, one religion
/ growing more and more feeble, shut
fling when he moved with palsied limbs
and scarcely able to drive his horses to
Pine Grove for the mail.
Recently Glassman told acquain-
! tances that he found the treasure, and
/ exhibited the proof, but no one was
shown where IL came from, and the Sc
cret, if ne found it, died with him.