The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-19
@oIIND HIDDEN TREASURE.
JACK FROM AN ADvENTuR-
lA'H o1s TRIP TO AFRICA.


,bers of the Expedition.
" ron, the New York Times.
1a of romantieism fell upon
,.st, Yesterday. All during the day
Etc .so had any good reason for being
tnos. .,,r,s Basin there stared at the
a. rrte shape of schooner yacht "
n7'' .7 n the dock on whose bow was
Hs .tvasind." For she it was that,
w under the orders of one who had
s'i'D7 The slavers of Africa and the nav
Ai'' If the Spanish Main in the days
ss man in command OF a vessel
mar upon states, had brought back
n ,-aa.,re and, it was whispered is to go
,, second search
p,or of the actual starting OF the snip
..orv embracing the theft from a
secret chart, the burning of
s,as q fight in which two men survived,
-. burial of millions in bullion and
aiken from the Catholic churches of
s..rish coast Then there is the sur
lne - tbe last man and his prompt or
Wv. -..,on of a syndicate to recover the
sainl,,ra and the syndicates partial sue
eeTs' Kwasind. getting into port late
oi,bt before. locked yesterday. This
.pe story of her cruise, as told by
r.ot Frederick T. Horton OF Brooklyn.
~ navigator. and those on board. sup
rIsmented by a member OF the syndleate'
but the precise wherea oouts VI the
rTs Island is withheld:
THE Kwasind. formerly the Eloridge
IT Gerry. pilot boat, was bought by
.,.r5icate whose members are L. F.
r.,i-srstein a prominent Baltimore club
.n. e p Spenny of Columbus, O., sec
ra+ary NJ the Ohio Debenture Company
,5 - The Wyandotte Savings and Trust
C,nnanv; W. c. Spenny, his cousin; F.
u campbell and E. P. Herring of Gin
cinnati ~ >.
roan5er. He was a Pennsylvania boy who
had run away TO sea years ago. He tlnai-
" wound up in the slave trade on the
African coast forty years ago. The ship
m which he was then-it had no name. as
savers are pirates, TOO. when business is
dnu-w9s accustomed to bury its booty
and the money it received from its cargo
Of e1avAs on an island off the coast of
Africa at the end of each trip. They had
had a successful trip this time, and had
hurried vast amount of treasure, some
of If p8te taken from the churches on
the Spanish coast during a run there,
when the captain died. He was Capt.
Soners Of Philadelphia.
There was mutiny on board ship then.
There being no navigator, the ship was
fired and the two boat crews managed 10
get away In one of these was Capt. Hen
derson They took the captains body
ashore and buried it on an island. Then
the two crews fell upon each other in
fight over the command of the band and
the treasure. OF the two boat loads only
two men survived One was Capt. Hen
derson, and the other was an able sea-
man. The seaman made a chart of the
location Of the treasure, which was sub
eequently stolen from him. Henderson
went to one of the men in the syndicate
wiki this location of the treasure, and
then the syndicate was formed.
The first I heard of the existence. of
this treasure was in New Orleans, in
March, 1898, when a sailor, the able sea-
man Of the former days, died in a hos
pital there He made a confession to
priest that he had been a pirate and a
SLAYER. He describe the death of his cap
tain and Fhe burning of theships. and told
Tow he had made a chart showing the To-
cation of the loot. This, he said in his
confession, had been stolen by his COM
panions --.- o,. ~
The Search for the Treasure.
Upon the strength of Capt. Hender-
sons statements the syndicate was or
i ganzed We left Erie Basin last Oct
u sailing under secret orders None
Knew out ultimate destination. We were
nine in all on board. Henderson was in
command, Campbell was along, and w. c.
spenny represented the syndicate I was
the navigating officer. There was stew
ard and crew Of four men. First, we
went to Flushing bay, where we QUILTED.
ne put on board all the things for dig
elns for treasure. We had pickaxes,
elowoars. miners lamps-those patent
electric lamps that you stick into hole
10 see what's down there. We even took
song charcoal for melting down the bull
non ana plate. There was an agreement
sished that all on board were to share
IL Inc treasure, but that was matter of
iorm' because they knew after they found
II mat II they brought the whole $4,000 900
e'oHs' some one of us could stop it by re-
porting 20 the Custom House. Then the
osmal owners would be looked up and
salvage deducted
= wen, for time we cruised about,
s.'lIh 10 throw me off the track. l was a
-onA outsider They never let me go
ashore ell the time we were visiting
lSlahas' After leaving the place where
~. gu.ltted, we went to Bermuda, which
eIt NOV "a. We then went to the
-. Eeloe group, landing at st. Vim
= lsIand We were there from Dec.
- ~" vne Nth. All these landings had
tn maue 10 throw me off the track
~. nun want me to know where
NJ o1lusIly got the trea sure After that
tic 81. ", slIalght across the South ATTAIN
=, m 'ne coast of Africa. We touched
Cs,,a lAsnd down in latitude 20, and
Won up lhe coast of Africa I won't tell
I'm -. Iele they got the treasure, but
you something from the log
what the Log shows.
ri, ..eSe are entries that the captain
S'o"ed the reporter:
- E-EmDloyed in making canvas
one large ons isnt little ones ana
,r nay Dec 81. on the line--EmpIoved
the lang long rope ladder for entering
rac ayes and scaling the cliffs.
a sn1 IT, attitude 20.53 south-Fittine I'M
PblaG.slIolom to receive the bones Of some
lantic t!Aa captain on the South At.
years ouIled on an island over forty
spe,la 5o, tne depositor of millions in
The n,ora treasure, but death spoiled
be dea a. VI apt Somers. Some say that
Cam e "lhers that he was murdered.
was t5. 'olhers'' went on the narrator,
in thu A., uan who had died way back
island ~ mat Henderson landed on the
ashore ~ was the man Henderson took
that IL Jury Henderson promised him
The w., ever went TO those narts ~
ers's XIV ky again he would look for som
tiled ~ ana bring them back. And he