Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-08-25
FINDS PERUVIAN
COLD ON ISLAND
Man Who Befriended Beggar Is
Rewarded With Key to
Buried Treasure.
ROMANCE IS NOT YET DEAD
Locates After Search Of More Than
Seven Years Gold Hidden Half Gen.
fury Ago-Chureh pespoiied
by Four Sailors.

Papeete, II; hiti.-ROmance is not
| yet dead. Tales of buccaneering. muir
| der on the high seas, buried gold on
lonely, uninhabited islands and charts
| and cryptOgrams of hidden treasure
| trove are not all inventions of mag
| NATIVE minds or legends OF il day
| which is long past.
Such tale is that of the tire Assure
| of the island of Pinaki, whose hiding
| place, after a patient search of more
| than seven years, has at last been
! discovered. And now a schooner from
| Tahiti has been dispatched to bring
away the gold.
| Sailors Despoii the Peruvian Church.
SerterS from cOaStwiSe vessel,
| joined revOlutiOnists in Peru and
| learned of vast treasure of jewels,
| plate and ingOts, the property of the
church, which had been hidden i'll Peru
10 prevent it from falling into the
handSsOf one of the warning factions.
Secretly, the sailors searched for the
treasure, found it concealed i'll
church and moved it to another hiding
place on the coast.
Going to Panama, the Seafarcrs. at
night, boarded small schooner, lnur-
derett the crew and, after putting the
treasure aboard, set sail across the
Pacific. intending to make some Eu-
ropean port later TO dispose Of their
wealth. Recalling that they had no
clearance papers and probably could
not enter European port safely, they
decided to hide the gold on some un-
inhabited island and then get it later
I'm vessel they would charter at sgd
ney, y. S. W., for trading purposes.
Ac;Oss their path lay the island OF
Pinaki in the PaumOtu archipelago of
the south seas, and at this uniniabited
spot they stopped and hid their loot.
One native, who observed them from
a neighbOring island and rOwed across
tn see what the men from the strange
schooners were doing, was killed and
his tribal brothers, who crossed later,
found only his empty canoe and
strange markings on the trees.
Sailing on to Australia, the four
>Scuttled their vessel few miles from
shore and rowing to land. told Of a
storm at sea which opened the seams
for some residents had seen the ship
approaching and had witnessed its
mysterious sinking There were no,
police however. i'm that section. and
as the four looked desperate, they
were permitted to strike out overland
for sydney unmolested.
Beggar Divuges Hiding Place.
In 1911, years later, Mr.. Howe
was accOsted on a Sydney street by an
aged beggar. Howe gave the man
few shillings and was surprised to
hear the man ask his name and All
dress. Some time later Howe re-
ceived an urgent summons TO Il sgd
ney hospital. There he found tie beg
gar, who told of how he and three
others had buried their treasure, had
sailed on to Australia and had set out
overland for Sydney. Blacks lad at
tackled them and killed two of the
sailors. The beggar and his surviving
companion Brown, tried for years to
get ship to go for the treasure, but
never obtained money enough. Brown
finally disappeared, and he, killrain,
had fallen into misfortune and knew
his end was near. He gave Howe
map of the island. begged him to be-
leve the story and to search for the
treasure. The following day the beg
gar 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 with the colonial government
as tn his rights in the matter. 1t is
said rhe treasure is worth several mil
lion dollars.