M.C. Rice found a treasure map inside a pocket watch in 1934?

Oh the watch belonged to Paul Stachwick of Huron. He and S D Gordon Brawner of Springfeild Ill, and elmer J Palliser of San Diego California was allegedly cast away on Cocos island. In fact it was ruse to make an illegal search as they had no permission to search Cocos from the Costarican Authorities. They were picked up by the vessel Sacramento sent from Balboa Panama in 1931.

The watch story was part of a later elaborate scam to some how make out that Paul Stachwick had secret information as he at the time tried to get on the Queen of Scots expedition. The con was for M C Rice was to clean the watch make the discovery. The crude map depicts Cocos islands Chatham bay with Breakfast island also known by other names and conic island just off the bay. I might also add that No one bought story in 1934 either..

Crow
 

some info on M.C. Rice


the watch the woman gave M.C. Rice, had been her seafaring
husbands, given to him by his father
Western Argus (Kalgoorlie, WA
Tuesday 2 January 1934
02 Jan 1934 - CLUE TO A FORTUNE RICH SECRET IN OLD WATCH
addy in newspaper clip
https://goo.gl/maps/7sRhB

M.C. Rice went looking and got stuck/lost at sea boat located,
at Corrientes Point, ( i didnt think cuba was in the south seas )
and adds a new name albert jones
july 9 1935
lost boat.jpg
http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/newspapr/np_page2.asp?code=nidp0141.jpg
if you want to look at more can be done by yr, and gives all available NPs for
Xyr in the collection
AHDP - Newspaper Collection Home


pay flat fee for article
July 08, 1935
CUBANS FIND MISSING BOAT; Canadian Ketch, With 5 Aboard, Taken in Tow After Drifting.
HAVANA, July 7 (AP). -- The Cuban Navy announced today it had located the missing Canadian ketch Casarco, which has been drifting in distress for nine days with five persons aboard, including an ill mother and two children. All aboard the Casarco are alive, a navy vessel reported. It was found near Corrientes Point.
CUBANS FIND MISSING BOAT - Canadian Ketch, With 5 Aboard, Taken in Tow After Drifting. - Article - NYTimes.com
 

Hello CW909

Some excellent followup research. The term south seas is a very lossely used term geographically. Some times it can be refered to as the Caribbean or the South Pacific.

Crow
 

Hello cw0909

Indeed your father is correct. However that was the modern perception of the southseas being below the equator in thee southern Hemisphere. The old term was a rather generalized archaic term some newspapers still used based on the fact that the buccaneers traveled through to Caribbean to the South seas across the istmis of Panama. Hence the carribean got tagged along with the Pacific ocean by people in Northern Europe was indeed for them the South seas. This archaic term was used up until the mid 1930s by some.

The boat Mr rice and others sailed on was heading for Cocos island in the Pacific via Panama canal via Caribbean, however they never made it. The old lady who passed the watch on to Mr Rice was I believe the mother of Paul Stanwick. Good job trying to enlarge picture. The illustration on the right is fictional one. The small map is represntational of Chatham bay with the two islets. Breakfast and Conic.

Would ya like to see the island?

Crow
 

Crow said:
Hello cw0909

Indeed your father is correct. However that was the modern perception of the southseas being below the equator in thee southern Hemisphere. The old term was a rather generalized archaic term some newspapers still used based on the fact that the buccaneers traveled through to Caribbean to the South seas across the istmis of Panama. Hence the carribean got tagged along with the Pacific ocean by people in Northern Europe was indeed for them the South seas. This archaic term was used up until the mid 1930s by some.

The boat Mr rice and others sailed on was heading for Cocos island in the Pacific via Panama canal via Caribbean, however they never made it. The old lady who passed the watch on to Mr Rice was I believe the mother of Paul Stanwick. Good job trying to enlarge picture. The illustration on the right is fictional one. The small map is represntational of Chatham bay with the two islets. Breakfast and Conic.

Would ya like to see the island?

Crow
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I would. It's a very interesting place.
 

Hello Aquanut Cocos is mysterious as legend supposed it to be.

Its rare day its not raining the humidity is about a hundred percent. You feel ya breathing water on the island

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Heading toward Chatham bay you will see Conic island some times also called Uiloa on the left below

IslaDelCoco2804k.jpg

Inside Chatham bay in picture below the island to the right is Breakfast island known on the old charts. Today it mainly known as Manuelita Isalnd

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Landing on the shore is hazardous as large boulders are strewn across the beach

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The boulder and rocks around the bay are whos who of history of ship who have come to island to hunt treasure or whalers to get water.

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The creek below flows into Chatham bay. The creek heads in between two mountains. Its at given point you should branch off to the right which will lead to cave half way up the hill.

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This is the bay shown in watch. Paul Stachwick of Huron. He and S D Gordon Brawner of Springfeild Ill, and elmer J Palliser of San Diego California was allegedly cast away on Cocos island. In fact it was ruse to make an illegal search as they had no permission to search Cocos from the Costarican Authorities. They were picked up by the vessel Sacramento sent from Balboa Panama in 1931. The directions are fairly well known by hundreds of searchers over the years Paul Stanwick was just one of many.

Mr Rice it seems never made it to the island. All part of the lore of an amazing island.

Crow
 

I don't understand. If this was a scam then why did Mr. Rice attempt to reach the island?
 

thanks for pics, more info for those that might venture there, from the offical site
or a wiki, sorry didnt save link, interesting stuff

COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS
There are 27 coral islands in the group. Captain William KEELING discovered the islands in 1609, but they remained uninhabited until the 19th century. From the 1820s to 1978, members of the CLUNIE-ROSS family controlled the islands and the copra produced from local coconuts. Annexed by the UK in 1857, the Cocos Islands were transferred to the Australian Government in 1955. Apart from North Keeling Island, which lies 30 kilometers north of the main group, the islands form a horseshoe-shaped atoll surrounding a lagoon. North Keeling Island was declared a national park in 1995 and is administered by Parks Australia. The population on the two inhabited islands generally is split between the ethnic Europeans on West Island and the ethnic Malays on Home Island.


the CLUNIE-ROSS family
Dynasties: Clunies-Ross
 

Salvor6 said:
I don't understand. If this was a scam then why did Mr. Rice attempt to reach the island?
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Hello Salvor6 Hardluck says hello. He is still in south of France. Sorry I have not replied sooner as I have returned to Australia. In regards to ya question about mr Mr Rice well he was used as a front by other people to get a free ride to Cocos that never happened. They as the newspaper cw909 reported said they got as far as Cuba. Most of the details can be found in Cris Westons documents. Sadly they are in private hands in Switzerland.

The Mr Rice story is only a mere minor story connected to the amazing history of Cocos. One of the many fortune hunters that came and went.

Hello cw909 Don't feel bad about that error as it is a very common one. Do ya know there is about 7 islands in the pacific alone at on time or another have had the name Cocos.

Crow
 

Crow said:
Oh the watch belonged to Paul Stachwick of Huron. He and S D Gordon Brawner of Springfeild Ill, and elmer J Palliser of San Diego California was allegedly cast away on Cocos island. In fact it was ruse to make an illegal search as they had no permission to search Cocos from the Costarican Authorities. They were picked up by the vessel Sacramento sent from Balboa Panama in 1931.

The watch story was part of a later elaborate scam to some how make out that Paul Stachwick had secret information as he at the time tried to get on the Queen of Scots expedition. The con was for M C Rice was to clean the watch make the discovery. The crude map depicts Cocos islands Chatham bay with Breakfast island also known by other names and conic island just off the bay. I might also add that No one bought story in 1934 either..

Crow
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This is a really cool scam story. Would you please forward me info or links where you found these details? I'm working on an article about Coco history and this could make an interesting note.
 

Honest Samuel said:
The watch or the map is worth all that money?
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Lol....yeah! Everything is pretty vague with this story! Actually can be considered to be worth nothing. Watch was a model made in twenty years earlier, yet but it was said to have been given to an end of life seafaring son by his father. The watch being made after the time it was alleged to have been given can only mean one thing. The whole story was fabricated.

It is so funny when artifacts are found hidden inside items made a century later.... "Kidd" maps being another example.
 

My good friend, Captain Kidd is rumor to buried many treasures in Connecticut. None are true.
 

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