Go to Anglefire Beale Treasure of Ron Gervais for an exact copy of the Job Print Pamphlet and the numbering of the DOI is on page 17. right (220) themselves (221) by (222) abolishing (223) the (224) You are looking on the right side of (220) when you should be looking on the left.
There is one cipher in that line that proves the Beale Papers was fabricated by the author and that being (807)
On page 19 of the Job Print Pamphlet (807) is "valuable" and the letter "v" is used for the "v" in "covers" This proves that the author made up the whole story because if you go back to page 18 you will find the author numbered the words of the DOI and made a mistake numbering "480" two times thus throwing his count off by a count of ten. Every letter after 480 and upwards should have been off by a count of ten yet here is the author hitting (807) for the letter "v" when he should have gotten (797) to be written by Thomas J. Beale. Yet (797) is "these" which is a "t" and not the letter "v".
I will continue to research on the Beale Treasure but there is only a one percent chance of the Beale Treasure being an actual buried treasure. I know I have flip flopped back and forth but from now on the Beale Treasure is fiction and James Beverly Ward was the author of confusion for the money. Bigscoop and ECS you both are absolutely correct in believing the Beale Treasure is a HOAX a better word would be a JOKE ON ALL OF US FOR WASTING OUR TIME AND MONEY FOR AN ILLUSION.
No person, no computer, nothing at all can decipher C1 or C3. All you have to do is check out C2 and the author's decipherment and his final text to find out there is absolutely nothing to the story. JUST A DREAM OF THE BELIEVER.
Good day gentlemen.
Franklin, now for a confession that might stir your interest a bit. In the past you have witnessed my constant pointing out of various facts that render the narration to be “fiction, deceptive, inaccurate, and completely penned by the unknown author, including the alleged letters.” However, I have always chosen my words carefully and I have never used the word, “Hoax.” Why? Because there is still one possibility left that, if the case, would leave some measure of truth in the tale. And it's because of all the factual evidence against the tale that this one remaining possibility still exist, so allow me to try to explain as this is the only area where ECS and I still have some divide. Now mind you, this possibility is still a very small possibility but since I have yet to be able to eliminate it then I still have to leave it on the table, so here goes;
What if the author really was looking for a missing piece of paper, one that he knew had to exist somewhere in the Bedford region but still completely unaware as to who might actually posses that vital piece of paper? If this were the case then how would this author expose enough detailed information to a completely unknown person through his narration without offering too much accurate and detailed information to the general public? Could he not write a similar tale, one that would surely draw the attention of the unknown paper holder, and might not this similar tale also have to include the ciphers and an example of how they might be used? All he would have to do is to alter each cipher enough that they could never be solved, thus the general public would forever remain in the dark, the holder of the vital missing piece of paper surely taking notice of the now closely relating details and ciphers in the narration? So in essence the narration could have been designed to attract the attention of only one unknown individual while still allowing for an entertaining and completely safe and unsolvable story to the general public.
It's a stretch, yes, but it would also explain “every deception and dependency in the entire narration.” It would also explain why Ward may have been used as a third party contact, this allowing Ward to screen any possible inquiries before forwarding any of them to the unknown author. Did it not ever strike you curious that the Thomas J. Beale of Richmond is the only such name of record during the entire period, this man being of the right age and in 1884, just one year prior to the publication, also living in/near the very city where the author claims the men were from, right down the road from Ward? And there's more, after doing a complete profile of every Jackson Ward alderman I could discover during the period they were all successful free men of color, another curious fact that lends itself very nicely to the narration's description of Thomas J. Beale as he might have appeared in 1817-1822?
Also curious is the fact that many of these aldermen had been enslaved before their free-man status, which begs the question as to who that man was who had lived in the Morriss home for a number of years without any remuneration at all? Many people assume this to mean that Morriss himself never received any pay for his kindness, however, the statement could just as easily mean that this unknown person had resided with Morriss without pay or earnings just as a slave would have existed.
Now all of this may sound far-fetched, however, what if the holder of that missing piece of paper had knowledge of all of this? Surely his fullest attention would be gained by the publication of that narration, the general public left completely in the dark as to the true nature and purpose of that entertaining narration. Just some food for thought as it is the only remaining possibility if any measure of truth exist in the Beale narration. And one last fact to consider, all of the main characters in the narration were close to home....so I'm betting Thomas J. Beale was too.
Just keep in mind, that even if that vital Ward & the Richmond T. J. Beale connection can be made, this still leaves everyone with bogus/altered ciphers and a bogus key so no chance of a remedy to either without the the real ones and the vital missing paper the author referenced.