Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1902-09-11

Then be gave upsud ret I'D hosne.
On his deathbed be 4 semy hus
band q chart and dirscsio6s f0r find
ling the place Of burial d the eDll
Mr.. Young went 20 the Island and
he found Il inhabited = flfty-fiy<
Spanish convicss, and Ia dnred NO,
dig. Mrs. Eliza Knight, ! wealfhy
resident q rooklyn. boa9ht charts
and pan Ct Tue swidow of Mr.
Heating, but We have che orly cor.
rect ones"
Curiously snouah. exc q 20
lice Byrnes In his book % PROBES.
sional criminals n AmsTfcx. des.
eribed . Mrs. e. Z. PecE As one d
the most ingenious swindl = hshal
known, and gave Mrs. e. knight
as her chief alias. BE thai Is Il may,
expeditions have set out ior Cocos
Island many times durina the last
fifty years, and Il Is said ths whole
island 10 underlaid with 6nnels and
shafts. An expedition - 0ut. from
Santa Barbara in Ies9 pnder the
leadership Of the Mayor q that
place. and four months vere spent
digging. No treasure was found
The next year the steamer Acapul-
co, loaded, like the Blakley. with
excavating machinery, nent 70 the
island and made . thoroa1h search
without success. A BrIfish war
ship is said 70 have searched for the
treasure also.
Some time after the Acapulco got
back to Panama les Chef officer,
Mate Blacknan, was fnet BY Ger
man named Captain Gei<sier, who
turned up in Panama. saying he had
come from New York. Re had trav-
eled all over the Pacific In a small
sloop yacht. the Hayseed, but want.
ed some information concarnIng Co
COS.
He said he had already visited the
island. making the trip rom San
Francisco in his little yacht. but In
tended TO go again on she steamer
Costa Rica for the purpose Of colon
izing the island. His party consist
ed of Miss Fisher, Mr.. and Mrs.
Iaube and their two children, Mr..
and Mrs. Meier, Mr.. and Mrs. Pleif-
fer, Messrs. Lang and Etraube, and
himself. Captain Geissler said he
had obtained 9 permit % colonize the
island from tfe Presidsziss d Costa
Rica, but he admitted his real quest
was the treasure which he thought
had been left on Cocos by Sir Hen
ry Morgan, the buccaneer.
He had met an old woman at Pan
anna who said she was o descendant
of the intrepid freebooter, and gave
Giessler chart OF the location Of the
spot where the loot lay hidden.
Giessler and his party set out for
the island, but it was not long be-
fore they were back, disguised with
the wild-goose chase the captain had
led them. And now the latest treas
ure-hunting expedition Is back, and
yet the gold has not been found.
However, there are other islands
cOncealing just rs mach, IL not more,
authentic loot than Cocos. There,
for instance, is Santa Catalina, where
Sir Henry Morgan, the buccaneer,
is said to have buried q shipload ol
gold.
One Alexander Archibald of q
neighboring island is said he found
q jar containing sl5. 900, and one
John Currie, Of Kingston, Jamaica,
who said he had seen gold, and who
arrived one day at Colon and was
ARRESTED on what ne said wasa trump
ed-up charge brought by an Ameri-
can TO whom he had told the secret
Of the treasure. He was released
through the efforts OF the British
Consul Compton, who afterwards
entertained his project OF gold seek.
ing. The gold was neverfound, and
Mr.. Compton ended by committing
suicide.
Then there is GARDENERS Island,
of the end Of Long Island, where, il
is said Captain Kidd hid his money.
It Is told in the local history
how Governor Bellamont, of Massa-
chusetts. who sent Captain Kidd to
England in chains, organized IN ex-
pedition which got Sc. 600 out ol
Gardeners Island. Yet they are
still searching for the money.-&.
Losis Rpablican.
a Certain Cure fsr Oyssntsry and Diar-
| rhoea.
Some years ago ! was one Of O
party that intended making q long