The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-07
The Globes Daily Short Story

7 ners were sent to California Gulch and
other camps. The miners and ranchmen
| at once planned to capture the party If
| possible, and armed bodies started out on
their trail. Col. Chivington sent troops
from Denver to guard the coaches, and
Capt. d. j. Cook, chief of the government
detectives of Colorado; went with them.
AT the Michigan house, in Platte Can
yon, the gang relieved the men at the
station OF their valuables and from there
| on they robbed everyone they met At
Georgia Gulch the desperadoes learned
that the settlers were on their trail and
they branched off up Deer Creek. They
hao just left the road when a posse of
twenty-five mounted men passed them.
ShortIy after another party of eighteen
men We're seen and Capt. Reynolds decid-
ed TO hight. The men were strung out
In single file, but the party turned back
pelore they got within gunshot of the
t tate - From the side of the noun
TAIN Reynolds saw scouting parties in ev-
cry direction and, realizing that he and
his men were likely to be captured, it
was thought best to separate
1t was decided to divide and bury the
treasure, and accordingly Reynolds, with
ms brother John, carried it with them
10 place near the head Of Elk Creek
where prospecting hole was found
from the saddle bags $40, 900 in currency
and three cans of gold dust, about S63 900.
was was tax taken. Most of the. currency was
IA a plSC0 VI SILK OllclOtl and
WIZ, WIN Two OF the cans was buried in the
mole. Taking one can of gold dust and
some currency to be divided among the
gang capt. reynolds and his brother went
Dack 70 camp. 1t was thought safe to
move down to grove of trees on Geneva
t ana tnere camp was made. While
$500 ImO u Lne men were getting dinner Capt
Ileynolds proceeded to leisurely divide
!, the money among his men.
AS ne was ladltng the gold dust out
H mI1n spoon a rifle cracked, suddenly fol-
rocks about 220 yards back of the CAMP
owen Singletary fell dead and ReynoIds
was wounded in the. arm
ne rest OF the outlaws broke for tho
brush and the attacking party took nos
session or the camp. They cut off Sin
gietafys head, which was taken to Fair
pay b as trophy. Mailman was captur-
EFT eu me next day. and one by one each
uIleInoer or the gang was captured. with
me exception of John Reynolds and lack
S;LUwe' VINO n escaped across the Arkansas
t nv Inc captured men were taken
~ DenVer, and after a sham trial were
sentenced TO Imprisonment for life. No
one on could induce Jim Reynolds, the can
of tha aio we've 70 reveal the hiding place
- The he first week of September Capt. Cree.
Oh Company A, Third Colorado cavalry
Lyon for ''safekeeping," and to shoot
every one OF them if they made any effort
c 10 escape e. The troop was composed of
QUEENS OF Denver who were thoroughly
aroused over the depredations of the eansy
and as the men left the iail thew T SStirs
mace ma aware that it was likely to be their
1dsI Trip. one of the men Of the company
was Sergt. Abe Williamson. who had bea1
me or1Ver OF the stage coach the desper-
ADDE'S had robbed.
Inc first camp was made on Cherry
creek, about eight miles from Denver ana
the next day the party moved to RUSSELL
v w Where they encamped for the night
on the third morning they were turned
over to a new guard under the corronod
OF Sergt. Williamson. Williamson march
ed them about five miles from camp, near
an abandoned log cabin, and there told
them that they were to be shot AIthough
reynolds pleaded for the lives Of the
prisoners, Williamson stood them up in
soIdie anu sflot mem one by one AS the
sergeant did the work himself.
Inc bodies were left where they fell,
n oot one Iif1o OF the men, John Andrews, was
breast. He found in the cabin QUANTITY
OF dried buffalo meat, upon which he
managed IN ina TO subsist for some days. Final
~ ne managed to send a note to a friend
IN Denver named ]. N. Cochran, who took
M nm home and nursed him back to health.
dne re andrews told Cochran the history
1Heynolds and John Reynolds knew any
thing about After he had thoroughly re-
iIo foyer andrews decided to try and find
southwark to Santa Fe and there found
them. The trio went up the Cimarrofi
and recovered the, silver that had been
attacked a Mexican ranch to get some
horses, but Stowe was killed. The other
Two got a. couple of horses and started
ond day out a posse of MexicanS from
me ranch where they had stolen the
horses horses, overlook X, them and in the fight
Andrews was killed, Reynolds making his
escape: He returned to Santa Fe and
nVed the lie of gambler for several
years. In October, 1871, he and man Of
yer. At the town of Taos Reynolds was
mortally wounded by two Mexicans, but
Brown succeeded in killing both of them
Brown took his wounded companion to
dugout, and before he died Reynolds
told him the story Of the hidden treas
u Ill, "a, and gave him map showing its
just at the head of Deer Creek in an old
| prospect hole at timber line. He stated
that the mouth of the hole had been filed
| up with stones and that ten steps below
| the hole butcher knife had been stuck
In tree four feet from the ground. The
handle of the knife had been broken off
of the hole. After the above recital Rev
nolds died and his partner buried him in
! the dugout.
spring met j. N. Cochran, who had be-
| friended John Andrews. Brown took
Cochran into his confidence, and as he
was thoroughly familiar with the region
where the treasure was buried the
two decided to fit out an outfit to search
Tor the treasures. The pair followed the
directions given by Reynolds mnutely
but found that terrible forest fire had
swept over the region and obliterated
every landmark by which the treasure
could be located An old white hat was
place and also a skeleton of a man. sup
posed to have been Singletary, as it was
minus head. They failed to find the
treasure cave, although they searched all
over the region. Two other expeditions
failed and the search was abandoned. >
Brown loafed about Denver until his
money was gone. He was later sent to
the penitentiary for stealing mules. but
escaped and was killed in a drunken row
in Laramie City. The map fell into the
possession of Gen. d. J. Cook, who still
istence Of the treasure, and it will prob
ably be unearthed some day hY some