Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-11-02
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N. F., named Heating, with full d.
reetions how to find the treasure.
Thompson died under mysterious cir
cumstances a little later and the
suspicion grew that Heating killed
him. However that may be, Heating
sailed to Cocos island in 1874 with
Captain Bogue, a seaman of sufficient
means to finance the expedition. They
found the treasure, but Bogre never
returned. Keatii C said he was
drowned in the surf while attempting
to climb into a boat with his boots
and pockets stuffed with gold. 1t is
generally believed that Heating MUIR
dered him.
Heating made a second visit to the
island four years later and again
found the treasure. In both trips he
Is supposed to have brought away gold
and Jewels to the value of $4,000.
He was prevented from recovering the
entire treasure by mutinous crews on
both voyages. Heating and Bogue are
the only men, so far as is known, who
ever recovered treasure from Cocos
island.
Heating passed his secret on to the
Hackett brothers, both seamen and his
neighbors in St. Johns. Heating had
lost or destroyed the chart which he
had obtained from Thompson. But he
drew another chart which he gave to
the Hacketts with explicit instructions
how to find the cave. Heating died in
1883 and Capt. Thomas Hackett, the
elder brother, sailed in 1885 OF an ex-
petition bound for Cocos, but the voy-
age ended with his death in Havana
from yellow fever.
Capt. Frederick Hackett, who is
about to undertake the latest Cocos
island treasure hunt, has himself made
| two former unsuccessful expeditions.
Captain Hackett was formerly a
whaling skipper. He has been a sea-
man all his life. He formerly sailed
out of st. Johns, Newfoundland, where
he was born and grew to manhood.
For the last ten years he has made
his home in Vancouver, British Column
bia, where he is engaged in the fish
ing trade. He is a bluff, rudy, beard
ed old sea dog, hale and vigorous de-
spite his three score years, and full
of a boyish enthusiasm over a project
that has been his one dream for a
quarter of a century. So many expe.
ditions to Cocos island have failed to
find treasures that Captain Hackett
has had difficulty in raising funds for
his present expedition. He succeed
ed in getting together 100000, and
with this sum he has been able to pro-
vision his ship properly for a years
voyage and to take along hydraulic
mining machinery, in which he is sure
lies the only hope of ever u%nearthing
the Cocos island treasure.
81 have stood over millions" said
Captain Hackett recently as he sat
by the skylight on the quarterback OF
the Hesperus and watched his sailors
busy with final preparations for the
expedition. ut was not lack OF
knowledge that caused me to fail In
my two former voyages, but lack o.
equipment and supplies. | knew after
my first expedition that picks ant
shovels would not do in Cocos, an(
that the only chance to get the treas
ure was to tear up the earth witt
: streams of water thrown by a ny
= drau1ic mining engine. / have tn
n 1o4no4 bvJra,,1ic T1oahtnnrU with mi
Y now, and | shall set out with perfec
faith in the successful outcome of m.
voyage.
1.-THE landslide that now lies on to-
Of the treasure cave probably occurred
e in the middle of the last century dun
n ing the violent earthquakes that shoe
d the western coast of South and Ger
n trail America. Forest trees have grow.
upon 1t, and the appearance OF tina
part of the island is vastly change
n since the days of Bonito, Thompso
and Heating. But with my bearing
e and chart and the instructions give
If me by Heating in many long int
views, / believe l can locate within
q RADIUS Ol on lGot LILO ppol pShC"e
70 which the treasure is buried.
a, IL knew Heating from youth up
Captain Hackett continued. He we
a rough, ignorant man who had bee
'. a fisherman and a sailor all his LII
ID 1T was because my brother and
befriended him when most everybod
ID else looked askance at him that aft
n advancing years made it pretty ce
e, tain that he never would be able
It. voyage to Cocos agaip, he decided
a. divulge his secret to us. My broth
and I owned the collier, Lord Dufferi
at which was kept busy cruising up al
down the coasts Of Newfoundland al
OF New Brunswick. On n of our vc
IN ages we took Heating with us. o.
le- stormy night as the old man sat
er the table In the cabin over a glass
I'd stiff grog. he first told us how to fl
vn the treasure. He began his stran
MT story with an account Of his first VII
We to Cocos with Captain Bogue.
ls. 1T was a hot day in June, he sa
IFS when he and Bogue landed. Th
Is, struck on through the tropical juns