The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-09-24

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NU.. Ihe Coco treasure is buried
Kesunos and Bo8uo's Part
kUHne vas married imam in conn
Portable circumstance who uvcd ot So
Iehuf. Newfoundland The two men
became friendly and Heating pgrsuad
cd Thompson To goo home with him.
proceeding to- rR,llaN while he hunted
up his friends Thompson was
heavy Drinker and one nght while UNI
der the influence of liquor he told
Heating about the Cocos Island trca-
sure, aud it is also probable that he
showed the map of the island ne had
! kept The significant thing is this.
/ that soon after telling his secret
/ Thompson died suddenly and mystic
uously At that time he was just
forty-four years old, and was supposed
to be i'm the finest possible health.
Heating buried his late guest and
also took over his effects, including
! the map of Cocos Island showing the
! hidden treasures concealment place
| Almost Immediately be began outfit
ting an expedition to look for the
treasure, and soon was ready to set
sail round the Horn. Heating did not
have funds enough to outfit, and was
compelled to take on a partner in the
enterprise. A neighbor named Bogue
became interested financially and also
decided to go on the voyage.
Their crew was kept in ignorance of
the real nature Of the expedition; but
it appears that in time they became
suspicious, and the cupidity that near
ness to Cocos always arouses took pos
session of them. Arriving at Chat
ham Bay, the largest landing on the
island, Heating and Bogue went ashore
alone under the simple pretense OF
looking for a water supply
The story of what happened at CO.
cos that eventful day comes from the
fourth in line of descent in this tale
one of the Hackett brothers, to whom
Heating in ais old age related it, The
Jackets at that time were fishing
men in Newfoundland, and Heating in
spite of his pirate money, was some
thing of an outcast, owing to ugly
stories that circulated The youna
men befriended him, and no doubt in
revealing his secrets be meant to re
pay them; but instead he fastened up
on them the lure of Cocos, which re
suited in the death of one and made
the other a wanderer. One of the
Jackets is still living, now making
his home at Victoria, b. c.
engaged in the fisheries, and it may
be unnecessary to say that thetreasurC
still becHons him. At the age of sixty
he is anxious to try again.
Fred Hackett's Story.
, Fred Hackett is the name of the one
, living, and last year he wrote an ac
count of what old man Heating told
him and his brother, and it is here ap
pended:
1--WE had taken old man Heating on
our boat. My brother and / owned
the snug collier Lord Duferin and
were busy carrying cargo between Ca
madam ports. We felt a kindness to-
ward the old man, as he became a sort
Of outcast in his old days, owing to the
ugly stories about the deaths of both
Thompson and Bogue. / can see him
now, sitting in our warm cabin over
his glass of stiff grog, as he told us
the story Of his treasure, throwing
back his head and staring at the
= beams in the ceiling. 1t was a stormy
night blowing hard outside; but we
were all snug below, and both my
q brother and ! listened closely, as the
} yarn was good one He gave us al
+ kinds of details; for it was plain tC
) see that he had been living the scenes
over and over again in his mind, ever
2 since the day, twenty-five years before
1 when he and BOgue had gone ashore
on the island and struck off into tn,
2 tropical bush after the treasure.
4 at was a hot day in June, he said
e but as pleasant as could be; and HI
V and Bogue were in such a tremendoui
S hurry to get sight Of the stuff tina
they hardly took patience to study tn,
t directions marked on the chart pre-
: perly The trees and palms hat
s grown up a lot; but they finally hat
s. little trouble in locating the spot The
r had brought pick and shovel wifi
J. them, had their knives to cut away tn
n thick underbrush, and they threw OF
# their coats and set to work hard
" Sure enough, in less than an hou
n they uncovered a bunch of gold bar
d and Spanish coins and heaps Of dis