The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-09
BACK FROM QUEST
OF PIRATES GOLD
Tale of Captain of Lord
Fit2William's Yacht.
SILENT AS TO THE RESULT
There Was No Conflict With the Grav
Party, All Having Spent Christ
mas Day Together.

NEW YORK. Feb 9.-Of All expedi-
tons fitted out to seek for buried treas
ure none seems to have been so easily
discouraged as that very costly and
pretentiou5 one which Lord Fftzwiliiam
took to Cocos Island.
The lord and his party of twenty-six
are now back in London, having arrived
there some weeks ago by the royal mail
steamship Orinoco. which embarked
them at Colon The cables report them
as being very reticent about the expedi-
ton.
The captain of the sumptuous yacht,
which had rounded the Horn to take
the party on board at Panama and con-
vey them to the little freckfe off the
Costa Rica coast. arrived here yester-
day. He is Captain E. w. Morrison
Accompanying him was DR.. ". B.
Anger, surgeon of the expedition
The two arrived from Colon by the
steamship City of Washington. They
repaired to the Manhattan Hotel, where
they will remain until they sail for
Liverpool by the Lucania on Saturday.
Captain Morrison, who is a tall man,
of ford face, leaned against a dresser
and answered questions. DR.. Anger.
who is youngish looking and slender, sat
on divan and helped out with the mar
ratiye when appealed to by the narrator.
Captain Morrisen's Story.
Il want to say first Captain Morri-
son began. that all talk of our having
a row with the Gray party is u lie. We
fell in with that party only once-that
was at Punta Arenas and Oil Christmas
Day We celebrated. the Gay together.
That was the first and only time we saw
them. All talk of our meeting on the
island and having fight for the treas
ure is rot ,"
As the story of how Lerd Fitzwi1liam
had been lea TO purchase Dig ocean
steamship and fit her out as g yacht for
this expedition, to send her around the
Horn manned by a crew of seventy
three men and to himself join the yes
sci at Panama with party of twenty
six, is pretty well known, the captain
was asked to take up the tale from the
time the veronfque left Panama for
Cocos to the time she returned from the
futile search and with seven OF her
crew in improvised hospitals.
We'll said the captain. we started
out from Panama and went 10 Punta
Arenas and there fell in with that other
expedition, as ! have just mentioned,
and then went OH to CocOs Island. After
the expedition landed the yacht stayed
by Il couple of days while the proyfs-
ions and implements were being put
ashore. and then. under orders from
Lord F7itzwilliam, put back % Punta
Arenas for mail.
when / returned a day or SO later
the surf beats came out with seven
persons injured Now wasnstzen shore
at any time. but the doctor here was,
and / want to say rieht here and@be.
careful that you get It down and make
no mistake, that If it hadn't been for
the great attention on the part of DIR.
Anger several OF the wounded would
have cied. Now, doctor"
Silent About Treasure.
Or. Anger spoke up.
II irnprovised hospitals for them or.
deck he said, land cared for them the
best I could. There were seven in all.
The way they came to be injured was
this. A dynamite cartridge had been
exploded on the side of cliff which was
snelved sharply. The men were at work
putting iii another cartridge when the
top slid off and buried them. When they
were dragged out seven were found &c,
he seriously injured. They were got on
board as quickly s possible ard all are
now in the Ancon Hospital, on the 18TH
mus
There ended the doctors statement
The captain resumed:
I've went straight back 10 Panama
and there Lord FitzwiIiiam and his
party crossed over to Colon and sailed
by the Orinoco for England After see
ing our injured safe in hospital we took
passage for here and that is all of the
story"
Attention was called TO the fact that IL
had cost nearly a quarter of a million
OF dollars to MT out an expedition for
this quest. and wonder was expressed
that II should be abandoned after the
explosion of one dynamite cartridge on
the side Of n long suffering cliff some
dozens of other expeditions having previ-
ousiy planted pickaxes there. But of this
phase the captain would not talk and
the modest doctor remained modestIy
silent.
veronique Still at Panama.
PANAMA, via Galveston, Tex.
Feb. 8.-Ear1 F'itzwilliam's yacht, the
Veronique. Is still in port in charge of
Ga plain Hamilton. who states that
he is waiting instructions from Lord
F1tzwilliam, which he expects shortly.
He says the CocoS Island stories are
exaggerated
All aboard are now in good health and
spirits. but there is no immediate pros
pect of their going back for treasure
although the hunting spirit is still
active.
JEWELS IN STORERQoM.