Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-07-11
FEARS CASH BURIED
BY AN OUTLAW GANG
HAS Been DISCOVERED
Farmer Finds Excavation
Where $4,000 In Stolen
Loot Was Hidden.
LEFT BY TRAIN ROBBERS
Last Member Of Outlaw Gang Dying
Ia Hospital Told Nurse Whore
tho Money Was
Buried.
LEFT BY TRAIN ROBBERS

Lawtcn. Okla.-Was $50. 600 in money
stolen by the "Redbuck" gang of out
laws froa. Il Fort Worth & Denver pas
senger train in the spring of 1886 UNI
eartheG in oklahoma?
C. G. Clements. . farmer, who lives
IL miles south and four miles west of
Lawton. believes that this happened.
Had Fiaht With Bandits.
On the Jay following t.e robbery the
Sulks cowboys saw four horsemen rid
ing across the prairie. and followed
them to within eight miles of the Glenn
ents farm. where the bandits went into
camp.
The cowboys made an attack, in
which two OF the outlaws We're killed.
The other two dashed away, one carry
ing a sack behind his saddle. The cow
boys got close enough TO renew the
fight, shooting one of the men from his
horse. He died two hours later. The
lone fugitive made his escape in the
sand hills. near the mouth of Pecan
Creek.
The affair WAS forgotten in this part
of oklahoma until about five years ago
when Fl. T.. Thompson, who owns the
quarter section OF land adjoining the
Elements farm, saw a stranger digging
in his land. Upon being questioned the
stranger said that he was searching for
the money taken from the Fort Worth
& Denver robbery hear Vernon.
He continued lis excavations for sew
e1al days. but found nothing. and de-
parted. He told Thompson that the
Il died of tuberculosis in Il hospital at
Fort Worth.
just before he died the man had con-
fided ot his nurse the story of the hid
den treasure, saving hist he had never
been able to locate it. having made a
mistake IN his diagram. He gave the
nurse a Chart. from which he said it
might be possible to find the buried
money.
Many of his neigllhors are of the same
opinion. Clements had been trying to
lind the persons who made the. excava-
ton on his farm. at the mouth of Pecan
creek.
"Redbnck'' was a noted outlaw in
early days. He was killed by officers
In 80 in a fight on Barniti2
creek in western Oklahoma. Red.
buck and his gang derailed a pas
robbed the safe in the express car.
1he loot is7 said to nave been $333 ,OCO.
The outlaw fled across Red river into
what then Yves Indian territory, but
which row is southwestern Oklahoma
News Of the robbery was telegrapheo
n telephoEed over The country, and
w. NJ. Sulhs. a cattleman with big pas
ture leases in the kiowa Inc .,omanche
Indian country. instructed his COWBOYS
to capture the outlaws If they should
appear IN This letghDOr"OOl.
May la Found Treasure.
thompson says that at various times
during the last five years strangers
have come to his farm and asked per-
mission to dig. His %neighbors became
interested and several of them made
excavations. but without success. Late
last fail a stranger appeared and begar
digging. He failed. like the others. anc
seemed greatly disappointed.
This "A began at a stone in the
bank of Pecan Greek. laying that he
had been told that if he should dig al
a point 200 yards to the northeast. to.
ward three blaZed oak trees, he would
be successful. This spot and the inter.
vening land Were thoroughly gone Owe
but without success.
One morning recently Clements was
building a fence in his pasture. Hi.
eye caught sight of a heap of newly
turned earth. and upon Investigation he
found a hole, that had been dug to e
of about three and a half feet
Lying outside the hole was a metal not
n pot contained only a hempen strine
about two and a half feet in length
scattered around were fragments o.
charcoal. This excavation was 1000 in.
stead OF 200. feet from the stone in Pc.
can creek and within a few feet of the
oak trees.
Clements feels pos;t'-a that some.
thing was found The t stranger he
remembers having seen On his farm an
peared abou two months ago. This
nan Offered to buy the farm and came
frequently to examine the land. SPEND
,ng much of his time in the vicinity OF
The three blazed oak trees.
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