Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-09-21
)IHCECq Eight g DEAD Boupc


Sailors are busy on the decks and the .an-
tain. Don Luis. j. taking IL the beautiful
Ike a shrcud- Cutlasses whirI and beat
against each other. BLOOD flows.
One man walked inland a little from the
beach and lay down 10 rest and dress his
wounds. Years later h. died in 4 Car AWAY
city and on his deathbed told ~ his crime.
Later the story same to others and there was
but that il anticipating.
Time and tide came and the beach was riled
many feet higher than il was in the DAYS
with which this legend deals. And what be-
came Of the treasure:
Wei that is what the people in Point Isabel
would ike "a know.
Now II Point Isabel. this very d,v there
dwells one Theodore Holland. Hes . nt,,e
man with sharp features. Seventy years haze
etched tiny wrinkles all over his tanned face
His small blue eyes still twinkle. Under the
bed IN his little shop. a yellow leghorn rooster
stlrs- Outside a cat basks in the sun. 4 palm
casts a light shade over portions of his yard.
- lis Jus II near the ~NDfF-
ms WIFE as az work. Almost nj his own bench.
two Of his daughter are busy with the family
washing. Near the door Of his shack hangs =
saddle. stripped If lis outer leather and with
It's rawhide covered frame exposed. The stir
rups are held in place ~ PIECES of rtr;nc wound
about the stirrup straps.
As lie sits at his workbench dressed in his
suit Of overalls. the Oh man EXPLAINS with \
smile 70 his visitors thar he has more time
than money.
The cat gets out If is place in the sun and
is replaced by the family dog. The three year
old. youngest Of Hollands twelve children.
runs out Of the shack and cannot be enticed
back. In comes Henry. an older boy.
Holland goes on 10 say that he had four
children ;. his first wife. who has been dead
twenty-five years. She was Of German blood
and gave him four children. His present wife.
Q Mexican. has given him eight. Many Of his
children are married and he tells where they
are and what they are doing.
, The aged man points to a bullet wound in
his neck. lie got that. he says. while riding
through the mesquite rs a trooper during the
Civil War. When he came ont Of the hospital
he obtained a transfer to the Marine Corps.
He tells how his father was a teamster with
General Taylor's army mt the storming of Mon
terey.
Then, mt the urging Of his visitors. he tells
what he knows about pirates.
.
When he was small. he went with his father
to Padre Island. There they bathed in the
Gulf. Then they sat beside n sand cliff. The
elder Holland leaned back. The sand slid
away and he felt some strange thing touching
him. He turned around to look. 50 lid the
boy.
They saw the crumbling remains Of an iron
bound chest. Tumbling ont of it were long
thin pistols with strange high backed ham
mers and places to hold flint. They were en-
cased in thick rust and crumblcd a. the wonder
ing man and boy touched them.
Father and son burrowed further in Tie
sand and found cutlasscs. These had been
packed with grease. 4 reserve supply probably.
and had been protected by their scabbards.
Only a light rust was on the blades. The
father and son loaded All IL these they could
find into their boat.
Home they went with them and the elder
Holland tried to cut with with 4 file. Almost
N" impression was made on the steel. for the
arinorers Of Toledo. Spain. are famous the
world over. The blades bent and snapped back
like springs. Only y ship on 4 kings mission
would be likely to have seamen 50 armed.
But the elder Holland was not without r.
source. lie made a fire and heated the blades
white hot and then cut them with a chisel.
They made the best fish knives | ever saw"