The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-20
HASLIP Is CONFIDENT
HE EXPECTS TO LOCATE TREAS
URE THIS WEEK.
HAS 1T ALREADY BEEN FOUND?
POSSIBILITY THAT BERRIEN'S
COMPANION RETURNED AND
f4.a GOT 1T.

MIR. HasIiP Discredits such n POssi-
biIity, and VIII Commence Search
With Renewed Vigor This Week.
Work Has to he Done mt Night
without Lights, and Excavations
Carefully Concealed Negroes
Digging Up the Island in Search
FOR tine GoiG aas. Silver,
80 far l have failed but have not
lost hope, said MIR. Haslip. who is
seeking the buried treasure on Warsaw
Island. The determined Philadelphian
returned TO Savannah to take a RESI-
from his arduous labors of the week,
and this morning he will again COM
mence his work of locating the sup
posed buried GOLD and silver.
All of last week Mr. Haslip and his
son delved in the sands on Warsaw for
several hundred feet around the point
where he thinks the burial place of
the bags of gold is This work was
necessarily slow and tedious, as he
had only himself and son to carry on
the work, preferring to trust it to no
one else. He has also suffered much
inconvenience in GLIDING the vigilance
of those who want to find out where
he suspects the treasure is located. In
order to do this much unnecessary
work has been done at various places
on the island, and the only real work
of search has been done at night with
out the aid of lights, and as each hole
was dug, TO a depth of from five to
seven feet it was carefully filled UP
and all traces of the excavation con-
cealed-
Believes He'll Get 1t This Week.
Mr.. Haslip is still confident, and says
that before the end of next week he
will have the long buried treasure in
the canvas bags that he has had made
for that purpose and will be well on
his way back to Philadelphia.
Isn't there a possibility, Mr.. Has
lip, that the two companions of Mr..
Berrien on the night that he buried
the treasure, have returned to War
saw and carried it away without say
ing anything about it?" a representa-
tive of the Morning News asked.
II have thought OF this" said Mr..
Haslip, but / hardly see how they
could have possibly located the place
unless they also had a map detailing
the exact location of the treasure
Even with the map am not so certain
as / was q week ago that l have the
right place. / discovered a place
Wednesday night that answers every
item of description of the place, and
part of my labor during the following
week will be devoted to exploring here
Before Mr.. Berrien died l asked him il
he thought his two companions on that
night could have located the place and
carried of the treasure. This was just
before he died, and he was too weak
to talk much, but he shook his head
very decidedly, and / feel certain that
such has not been the case. l knew
that ! would have several weeks
In which to work before findine
the place, for the map only locates the
Vicinity in which the treasure was
buried. 1t is possible that / have not
gone deep enough at the places where
l have already been digging, and from
this on / viii go several feet deeper,
as / find in. several places that there
has been an accumulation of large
drifts OF sand and other debris"
Keeping IL quiet.
You will let it be known when you
get this treasurer" Mr.. Haslip was
asked.
Il don't think that would be policy
until I got TO Philadelphia, for IL viii
be impossible for me 10 transform the
silver plate into money here, except
AZ great sacrifice. The gold could