The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-06-08

them at any time. One night when the fires of
the advancing band of marauders could be seen
from the tops Of the towers the pope directed
two of his secretaries and the captain of his guard
to detail body of men and inter the hoard in
some safe spot outside the walls This was done.
and with the dawn the castle was surrounded by
the bands of the free company. =.
It was over three years, according to the papal
records, before it was deemed.wise to dig up tho
hidden wealth and bring it within the walls, and
then, to the CONSERVATION of the pope and his
court, it could not be found! When the return of
the holy see to Rome was effected, the treasure
left behind, and there 1t remains today.
There has lived in France who has
surpassed all others in his interest and effort i'm
the search for buried and sunken treasures, and
that was NJ Du Case. Night and day, a
period of some thirty years, he followed the mad
pursuit and though he found much gold he spent
it all in the search Of Others dying poor, but
tent with the wonderfully interesting life that he
had lived His cousin, known as M. Ormond,
though he had number of other at vari-
times, due to the peculiar life he led was
man Of inferior intellectual equipment, compared
to the great master-searcher. But M. Ormond
inherited the records and notes of Du Case and
the bulk of them in the hands of Or.
monds heirs, family living in the French por-
ton Of Quebec, Canada.
Among the most interesting of these records
is the story Of the little known trove in the ruined
Abbey Of st. Bavon, in Client. I'M 1853, French
Jew, by the name of Broisel, fed from Guadar
loupe, in the West Indies, to Amsterdam, taking
with him large quantity of gold Jewels and
plate, which he had obtained in the West Indies
by some Illicit means just what the records do
not show.--f4s7 peculiar conduct caused him to
be questioned as spy and being cowardly sort
of man, he fed to Client, taking with him big,
IL oot% UnoS Iy@1{o
as man-servant. The night of his arrival he
left the inn in which he had quartered himself,
he and the negro, bearing each large sack Of
gold and jewels. 1t is known that they hid these
somewhere in the ruined portion of the abbey:
The next day Broisel rearrested as spy
and was deported. A wealthy man of Client pro-
tected the negro and made plans to return the
unfortunate black to his home in the islands OF
the Caribbean. The ship which Broisel was
placed was one crossing to Hull, and on board
were a number of rufaans who, finding that Broi-
sci was Jew, maltreated him so severely that
he died. On being informed Of his death, the
negro told his benefactor of the existence of tho
trove and of it's burial in the ruins.
With party of peasants the two went there In
daylight and the negro tried to point out where
his late master had hidden the sacks. He was
unable to do so. owing to his first visits having
been made in the dark and to his superstitious
fears having obscured the accuracy of his per-
able, who scoffed at the whole proposition and
forbade any more digging. This Injunction was
made permanent and while it is reasonably GER
tain that any man who succeeds in getting per
mission to go through the ruins of st. Bavon will
unearth enough wealth to buy score of such es-
tates, no one has yet made the attempt.
1t Is impossible in this consideration to enter
into details concerning some two or three hun
dred other treasures on the Continent and only
few Of the more interesting can be mentioned
and that very briefly.
Somewhere in the morasses in the hinterland
OF Vierlande the queer little lowland tract above
Hamburg, there is concealed in a tanked barge e
great store of gold ornaments, jewels and gold
pieces hidden by the Lowlanders fleeing before
the Spaniards in the sixteenth century.
The most enticing of the ancient quests is tho
one concerning which there has been so much
speculation and on which work whatsoever has
been done. In the years before his death Attila
the Hun became acquisitive and assembled q
treasure so vast as to stagger the imagination.
This he hid In cave in Hungary not far from
the spot where he died. All the traditions say
that he was buried at the mouth Of the narrow
tunnel leading to the cave for he believed he
would come to life again and would need the
treasure to regain his power Who will do the
necessary delving among the old records and To-
cate the grave of Attila and the enormous wealth
concealed near it?
In conclusion let me cite great mass of sunk
On Wealtn concerning the location and existence
OF which there Is speculation whatsoever In
the harbor Of Vigo, Spain, lay forty galleons one
fa1r day some centuries ago, many Of them fresh
~ arrived from Mexico and South America sew
eral known to have several million dollars each
In gold and silver bars, dust and coin aboard and
Others destined for other ports, that had put into
Vigo to escape the common enemy the English
sea-rovers Admiral Sir Francis Drake appeared
and gave battle. Now Frenchman or Spautard
would have had keen eye to the treasure but
Drake did not, for he sank everything In sight.
On the bottom of the harbor, the greatest depth
OF which is sixty fathoms these rich old hulks lie
awaiting delivery Of their wealth. Cavalier de
Pima OF Genoa has invented circular steel tower
which could be sunk over them and then foated
with an observation chamber from which crap
pling-hooks and shovels could be directed. but his
project is at standsti discussed this situation
in Vigo Bay with superintendent Of large
American wrecking company. He looked over
the chart of the harbor and his hard blue eyes
shone as he said:
I wish somebody would Sic me on that tohl
It Is cinch for US Americans holy cinch!"