Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24
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Fortune That
Ran AWdu
~ /AIGOORLIE JOE" DAILY. 74-year-o old prospccto
of Darwin Australia. is no longer resentfll oil
~ man. although he's a mighty puzzled one Afte

~ man. although he's mighty puzzled After
nearly five years of frItess search the wids of the
Territory have yielded proof
Days often repeated story of $25 900 fortune that
away from him. But where the gold went remains
mystery.
1t July 1886 that the veteran pros
pector brought into Darwin by patrol OF the Northern
Australian Mounted Police that had found him nearly dead
from thirst and exhaustion at point southwest of Anthony
Lagoon After recovering he told story that strange
in country where extraordinary experiences
novelty.
When news Of great Kagoorlie gold strike reached
England in 1885 Daily young lad in Yorkshire decided
go Australia hs fortune. Il will be IN
year with plenty money he told his sweetheart
Then well get married and buy farm"
His fiancee agreed to wait and among other parting
gifts she gave him small bottle OF brandy when
you strike 1t rich, she told him, drink toast 10
and your success
Joe Daily did return England In a year He had
luck at the Kagoorlo diggings where he got his nick
Nor did he fare much better in mining camps
Hargraves New South Wales Canadian Gully in Vic
toria.
The years slipped by Occasionally mined enough gold
to keep going and to supply small outfit for prospecting
expedition The girl Yorkshire became a memory His
only memento of her the unopened bottle OF brandy
which he always carried in his kit.
Then the rim Of the Northern Territory after
almost 80 years according his story he did strike rich
vein of gold When he loaded the precious metal in the
big leather saddle bags OF OF his horses he
mated that he had than $4,000 worth That and
his water bag fair load for the horse for he wanted
to get back to Darwin fast He through with mining
forever that he had his pile He would abandon
OF his kit and ride the other horse 10 make time
he discarded articles his kit bag he found the
brandy. Then he remembered He uncorked IT, raised II
toward stars said luck" and guped it down
Something needed to complete the celebration
fireworks. Tipsy he drew his revolver.
"Co-ooee" he shouted I'm rich"
Scared by all the shouting and banging the horse with
the precious metal and water its back snapped its
teher and galoped away the night Daily watched
1t for minute and then realization sobered him Quickly
he mounted the other horse and started in pursuit But
the badly frightened horse had vanished the
All that night and part the day Daily searched
for his vanished fortune. Finally he gave up There
outpost He would have start for civilization quickly
die horrible death from exposure
He rode his horse francay until IL died from thirst
Then he continued foot searching for namma holes the
occasional rock oucroppngs that might contain small
quantity Of water II at of these holes that the
Mounties found him, dead than alive
When they brought "Kalgoorlie joe Daily back to
Darwin and the story of his runaway fortune got around
friendly prospectors gubstaked him and he returned to
search for his vanished gold The trip proved fuiless
however as did two subsequent expeditions
Nor did other prospeetors who thought that they'd have
look for Kalgooe stake long as they were in
the territory have any better luck The horse and it's
valuable load had vanished completely that people began
TO think il had existed.
When Daily would repeat his story in the hopes Of
getting another grbsake folks would wink knowingly at
another and invite the old pospector to have another
drink and quit dreaming about the past.
But Daily refused to forget And the mounting skept
made him bitter than did the loss of his for
tune So for the past few years he had lived recuse
in little shack the city's outskirts
the other day when constable Of the Northern
Australian Mounted Police his tracker returned
interior bringing with them two large weatherbeaen
and empty saddle bags with the initials j. D. burned
them, "Kagoorle Joe" felt that he indicated And
the other prospectos agreed especially when particles in
the bags proved they once had contained gold
bags found in the southwest Anthony
Lagoon" said the consabes report ION the skeleton of
horse whose left front leg broken by stepping into
a hole at gallop / would say that the skeleton had
there for several years The saddlebags identified
property Of Joseph Daily gave evidence
ing contained gold"
But where this gold went remains puzzle. None was
found the skeleton of the horse The whereabouts
the fortune that away remains much of mys-
terry a