The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-07-17
BURIED LOOT ON
DESERT ISLAND
Pretended Shipwreck Is
Done to Cover up
Their Tracks
DEATHBED CONFESSION
Location Of Hidden Treasure
Determined on Island of
Pinaki in South Seas

PArEETE, Tahiti. Julg Tito
nance is not yet dead. Tales of bu'-
,anccring. murder ON the high a"aa,
buried gold on lonely. unIuhahilrd
islands and charts ana ciNtuEihWH
OF hidden trcusuIc-truNr are not al
Inventions Of imaginative NINA" OF
legends uf day when is long past
such tale is thr story Of the
treasure uf the island ot Pinnhi
whose hiding place. after q patient
search of over seven years. has az
last been di4,O,orpd And uuN u
schooner from Tahiu has been dia-
patched 10 bring away the Eold
A half century ago four sailors Il ".
RortcrS from CuustWisr vessel
Joined rcvoiutiouists in Peru aud
learned " vast treasure ~ i"w"lH
platc and ingots. the property ~ tho
church, which had been hidden I'm
Peru to prevent " from failing lui"
the hands of one OF the warning fHc
,ions Secretly the sailors searched
for tho treasure, found II cuuc"nici
In church building ana moved u
to another hiding place ON the const.
Going To- Panama the Hrnfarcrs. at
night, boarded "A small schooner.
murdered the crew and after putting
the treasure aboard, sct sail across
The Pacific. intending To make some
European port later to dispose of
their wealth. Recalling that they
had no clearance papers and prob
ably could not enter European port
safely thcv decided tn hide the gold
on some uninhabitod island and thcn
get II later In a vessel they Would
charter at sydney. y. s. W. for trad
ing purposes.
Across their path lay tho Island
OF PinAki. In the raumotn Archip'l
ago Of the South acas. ana nt thi.
uninhabited spot they stopped ana
hid their loot. one native, who oh
served them from nclghboring iH
land and rowcd across To zee whal
the men from the strange schooner
were doing. was Killed. and hts trihhI
brothers, who crossed later, round
only his empty canoe ana stranS'
MARKINGS on the trees
Sailing on TO Australia, tho foul
scuttlod their vessel when "A lew
miles from shore. and rowing l,
land, told of STORM Mt sea whict
opened the seams Of their ship. MOI
all believed them, for some resident
had seen the ship approaching ano
had witnessed its mysterious SINKING
There were no police. however, u
that section. and ns the -FOUR ihr'
looked desperate. they were permit
ted to strike out overland for Sydne!
unmolcsted.
Years later, in about 1914, MI
Howe was aCCostcd on sym"
street by an aged hcggnr. Whe
Howe gave the man few shhhnG
he was surprised TO hear the beEBh
ask his name and address, som
tim, later Howe received an urg''
summons to go to Sydhcy nos
pital There he found the begga
who told Of how he and three otnei
had buried their treasure hnd shl'e
on to Australia and had set out over
land for sydney. on their wa
blacks attacked them ana Killed Nv
Of the sailors The bcggnr and nj
surviving companion, Brown, trl'
for years to get ship to go for IN
treasure but never obtained none
enough Brown finally disappears
and he, Killrain, had fallen into ms
fortune and knew hiS "nd was h'al
Therefore he gave Howe the map 9
the island, begged him to believe N
story true and to search FOR tn
TREASURE. The following day the beg
gar died.
since then Howe has been search
ing for the treasure and lhtely "'
nounced that he had found II IN
shallow lagoon ON Pinaki Later
ne chartered a schooner at faper'
10 20 to lift the gold, after maxim
N contract with the colonihi goNcti
mont as to his rights In the matte
II ia said the treasure l. worth s''
,rnl million dollars