Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-12-02

Bluff lasc Sunday night, so strange, so WraDt ill mystery as to compare with the widest creams ever rec)r led in fiction. Many work of fictl n If worldwide popularity has been founo- ed on a moro proaics story than this one. It sInirks of the ultra e1lCra- tons of :ae tlat flag fctiot. If the Spanish Mai1 lul the credrlGu; nas enly to iAVesii ste for himself to De. come coqViEse...
 Can it oe that Pine Bluff Was once center of operations of next to Cap tain Kidd, Americas s most daring and merciless pirate, LeHitte, as is hand ed down by tradition; or can the more probable story be true that Dave Arm strong, one of Pine Bluffs earliest and weathiest citizens, whose de- scendents are now living in Pine Bluff. buried his wealth in what was then his estate in the Eastern part of the city, and afte:
  treasure, left for another state where he was stricken down, and dying, left the key to his buried fortune in the hands of strangers
 Whatever the truth of it is. on last Sunday night three white men. one bearing long scar on his right cheek, forcibly took possession of the premises of Fannie Waitman, a ne gross of considerable family and dig ging a hole in the ground in her back yard, removed from it rusty vessel of some kind
 The story, with it's details. as told by the members of her household is a remarkable one, and the little house, in which she lives. which is no more than a cabin, setting out on the river bank just opposite the Cotton Belt shops, at probably the highest point a story. se#sEHl
 On Monday, two weeks ago, two white men. both strangers approached the premises of the woman and asked her many questions relative to distinc- tive land marks on the premises. They asked her if the property did not once belong to Dave Armstrong. She did not know that he was once the owner of the land and told them that she bought the place of Sterling R. Cock Till. who was the owner after Arm strong
 Their queries finally centered upon a cottonwood tree which once stood near the river bank. Tie stump still remains and the woman showed it to them. Other questions were showered ed upon the unsuspecting woman, and she was asked to allow them to place compass in her back yard She consented and the compass was care fully placed. Their purpose accom- plished they then left the premises. telling the woman that they would return in d week.
 The week rolled around and on the Sunday following the two men re- turned accompanied by another. Sunday was spent by them in the To- cality of the house they had visited a week before. Part of the day they were fishing on the river. On that evening at about 2 o'clock the woman was preparing to retire for the night She heard a noise in her back yard hnd upon Investigating it saw threa men industriously engaged in eXcavat- ing. She suspected who they were and approached them. As soon as she was noticed, one of them advanced to- wards her and snapped pistol in her face, saying:
 If you want to see daylight in th morning you had best go back to your ]. house"
 She obeyed, replying. All right but HI send for the patrol wagon
 "D-m the patrol waeon.'' said the man, returning to his work.
 Terrified. the woman slipned over to neighbor and told him of the oc. currence. The fright seized him also. an old negro man but his son was persuaded to 20 over to the shops and look for Mr. II. F. Young the night Watchman. Mr Young lives just north of the Waitman woman. The bov could not find him ~nd returned
 The woman then telephoned the po- lice headquarters but the patrol wag- on was not there at the time. Tn the meantime the digserS had completed