Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-01

his claim to the
dishes, which the
heirs of the land received. Thus it appears
from this case that finding is not keeping"
However, the dishes were not treasure
trove, this term having been held to apply
to coin, bullion, gold, and silver, and not to
articles of personal property.
Joel coryell's Pot of Money
OWING to the nice discrimination shown
in legal practice, it is probable that re-
ports of finds will become fewer and fewer in
proportion to the number of unearthed hid
ing places of hidden treasure. The ten
dency is to keep secret the fact of finds in the
United States, as it has long been in England.
Finders do not particularly relish handing
over thousands of dollars to people who never
knew or dreamed of the treasure till it was
unearthed by some one else.
This tendency of finders to mind their
own business" is indicated in the case of
joel Coryell sexton of the Romulus, New
York, cemetery. He was digging grave in
the lot of Thomas Mann, preparatory for
funeral. Some distance down he came upon
an old fashioned iron pot, with an iron
cover. He took out the pot and carried it
away. He did not disclose its contents;
but it was supposed that it contained a
large sum of money. The place where the
pot was found had been farm land till within
few years, and was added to the cemetery
rather recently.
There was no tradition or folklore tale to
account for the pot. Still, it was surmised
that it might have contained the plumber of
some Tories driven back by Sullivan's ex-
petition in 1879, or perhaps the hoard of an
early settler.
The Revolutionary Pay Chest
ONE of the treasures of Revolutionary
wartimes was the engineers pay
chest" stolen at Carleton, or Buck Island,
on the St. Lawrence River. This island was
the fitting out place of Tory raiders, as we'll
as the site of an arsenal, Notifications, etc.
A chest came to the chief of the engineers
full of his corps pay. When payday came
the chest was gone, and the fact was re-
ported to General Haldimand at Montreal.
1t had been stolen. From that time much
energy was used in trying to solve the mys-
terry of the disappearance. Some tons of
earth were heaved about endeavoring to dig
it up.
About 1879, however, the late Colonel
Horn of Cape Vincent was visited by man
who wanted to rent a skiff for several days.
The hire was made, and the stranger rowed
away in the direction of Carleton Island.
The afternoon of the second day the stranger
reappeared with an iron box, iron strapped,
in the stern of the boat. Lumps of clay
were sticking to it, Colonel Horr was less
curious than many another would have been.
He rowed the stranger to the steamboat
wharf, helped lift out the heavy chest, and,
receiving his pay, departed homeward. The
chest was very heavy, and about cubic
foot in size.
A few days later, however, William Majo,
who owned part of Carleton Island, sent
his boy to the pine grove after horses. The
boy returned frightened, with the story of
grave. Sure enough, there was a hole in the
ground. At the side was pile of new tossed
earth and stone thirteen or fourteen inches
square. In the bottom of the pit was the
print of a square box.
There is no doubt that there are many
boards and chests of booty whose where
abouts might be discovered by means of
maps which the hiders drew covering the
places of concealment. The man who
found the Carleton Island pay chest prob
ably had some sort of map or tradition to
go BY.