The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-15
FIND VAST TREASURE ON
 AN ISLAND D

Papette. Tahiti. July 14.-Romance is not yet dead. Tales of buccaneer- ing, murder on the high seas. buried gold on lonely, uninhabited islands and charts and cryptograms of hid den treasure-trove are not all 1nVen- tions of imaginative minds or Iegenos of a day which is long past.
 Such a tale is the story Of the treasure of the island of Pinak. whose hiding place, after patient search of over seven years, has at last been discovered. Ana no" schooner from Tahiti has been dis patched to bring away the gold:
 A half century ago, four sailors deserters from a coastwise vessel, joined revolutionists in Peru ana learned of a vast treasure of jewels, plate and ingots. the property of the Church, which had been hidden in Peru to prevent it from falling into the hands of the warning 1actlons. Secretly the sailors searched for the treasure, found it concealed m a church building and moved 1t to an- other hiding place on the coast
 Going to Panama, the seafarers, at night, boarded a small schooner murdered the crew, and after putting the treasure aboard, set sail across the Pacific intending to make some European port later to dispose Of their wealth. Recalling that they had no clearance papers and proDaD-
 
 safely, they decided to hide the gold on some uninhabited island and then get it later in a vessel they would charter at Sydney, N. s. w. for trad ing purposes.
 Pinak;, in the Paumotu Archipelago | of the South Seas, and at this unin- ! ha.bited spot they stopped and md | their loot. One native, who observ- 1 ed them from a neighboring island | and rowed across to see what the men from the strange schooner were | doing, was killed and his tribal bro- thers, who crossed later, found only | his empty canoe and strange mark ings on the trees.
 | Sailing on to Australia, the four scuttled their vessel when few | miles from shore, and rowing to land | told of a storm at sea which opened up the seams of their ship. Not al | believed them, for some resident: had seen the ship approaching an6 | had witnessed the mysterious sink | ing. There were no police, however in that section and as the four mer 1 looked desperate, they were permit ted to strike out overland for Syd l ney, unmolested.
 Years later, in about 1914, a MT Howe was accosted a Sydney street by an aged Deggar. When MT l Howe gave the man a few shillings l he was surprised to hear the beggaI l ask his name and address Some
 
 | summons to go to a Sydney hospital | There he found the beggar, who told 1 of how he and three others had bu- | ried their treasure, had sailed on to Australia and had set out overland | for Sydney. On their way, blacks attacked them and killed two of the | sailors. The beggar and his survf- | ing companion, Brown, tried for years to get 3. ship to go for the trea- sure. but never obtained money enough. Brown finally disa apneared 1 and he, Kil1rain, had fallen into mis- | fortune and knew his end was near l Therefore he gave Howe the map of | the island, begged him to believe the l story true and search for the treas ure- The following day the began | died
 | Since then Howe has been search | ing for the treasure and lately an- | nounced that he had found it in a | shallow lagoon on Pinaki. Lately he chartered a schooner at Papeete to go to lift the gold, after making a contract wdth tho Colonial gnNen-