The mysterious death of Adolph Ruth

[markmar]

I was talking about this map



In this map are mixed some clues which lead to treasure with the Perfil mapa. Mountain of Coronado, Eagle Head and King Royal ( fifth? ) are names which don't fit with what represent the Perfil mapa.
Had Adolph Ruth clues to Spanish treasure in the Superstitions? IMO he had. And I can explain why. From what I can see in the map, he knew about at least two treasure spots in the " Coronado " Mt., but I will write only about the Eagle Head place. Only the treasure at the Eagle Head landmark is close to the canyon floor, and I believe Ruth was looking for a Spanish sign/landmark which would show him he was close to the treasure. IMO, first he shoud find a pile of rocks about 39 feet/steps from the water in the canyon and then he should look up to see the rock which is a reproduction of the Eagle Head landmark. From that rock the mine is about 69 feet/steps away up on the mountainside and below the natural Eagle Head landmark.
I believe this spot was described also in the Richard Harmond map, and is the place which was found also by a group of treasure hunters in the 40's and by Ray Diamond few years later.
Here I have to say how the Eagle Head is only the half part ( the right side as you are looking from across the canyon ) of that mountain outcroping because the left half resembles a right side of a skull. I have read somewhere about a map which depicts a skull, and the description of the map made by the person who has seen it goes like this:
" The map as I remember it didn’t have any known landmarks on it except for a flat butte.Towards the center was a drawing of the left side of a skull lying on its back side, from the eye of the skull a scroll line encircled the eye to the right and then to the throat, at the base of the throat were many crosses, on the side of the skull to the right of the eye, written perpendicular was the word MINA.
Further left of the skull in a canyon and below the cliff of the flat butte was a dark spot, below the spot was written Geronimo cueva."
I post two aerial images to see the Skull and the Eagle Head landmarks, the sign/reproduction of the eagle head ( in the blue circle ) and the mine spot with yellow ( dot and circle ).

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I know, I wrote Jesuit treasure, not because they produced that gold in the Eagle Head spot ( nor took something from there ) but because they found it and marked it with their mark, the Holy Cup. Is the mark which the guys who found it in the 40's described it like " a hourglass with one chamber upon the other ".

 

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[sgtfda]

Does anyone know the connection between Adolph Ruth and LV Ashfield year 1912?

 

[Gregory E. Davis]

Does anyone know the connection between Adolph Ruth and LV Ashfield year 1912?

Good evening Frank: Don't know his connection to Ruth but he was a Draftsman/Architect and living in Arizona 1913-1914 then moved to Spokane, Washington by 1917. Cordially, Gregory E. Davis

 

[sgtfda]

Good evening Frank: Don't know his connection to Ruth but he was a Draftsman/Architect and living in Arizona 1913-1914 then moved to Spokane, Washington by 1917. Cordially, Gregory E. Davis

Thanks Greg. Poncho said the same. He get that from you, he who knows all

 

[Gregory E. Davis]

Thanks Greg. Poncho said the same. He get that from you, he who knows all

Good evening Frank: If you want to do more research on L.V. Ashfield, His full name is Leroy Valentine Ashfield. Born October 10th. 1886 and died December 1th. 1958. His son Joseph (Joe) Leroy Ashfield was born June 2nd. or 3rd., 1913 in Maricopa County, Arizona. Cordially, Gregory E. Davis

 

[Gregory E. Davis]

Good evening Frank: If you want to do more research on L.V. Ashfield, His full name is Leroy Valentine Ashfield. Born October 10th. 1886 and died December 1th. 1958. His son Joseph (Joe) Leroy Ashfield was born June 2nd. or 3rd., 1913 in Maricopa County, Arizona. Cordially, Gregory E. Davis

The correct date is June 3rd. 1913. Phoenix, Arizona. Cordially, Gregory E. Davis

 

[sgtfda]

The correct date is June 3rd. 1913. Phoenix, Arizona. Cordially, Gregory E. Davis

Thank you Greg!

 

[gollum]

Marius,

I think the event you are referring to was when Erwin and his father went to Anza-Borrego Desert in 1919 trying to locate the area of the third map (a Lost Gonzalez Mine). This was when Adolph fell into a gully in the dark, shattering his hip and leg. This earned him the silver plates, pins, and screws by which his body was identified.

Mike

 

[gollum]

Hey Frank,

You might have already seen this, but I found his grave:

 

[detectorcowboy]

What the hell gives any sheriff's offices the right to destroy any investigative reports

 

[Matthew Roberts]

What the hell gives any sheriff's offices the right to destroy any investigative reports

The Maricooa County Sheriffs office has in its operational procedures, all inactive files will be purged after 70 years. The Adolph Ruth file was never a murder investigation file, it was always a missing person's investigation.
The Ruth file was purged in 2005, seventy three years after the 1932 investigation.
While Sheriff MacFadden had suspicion that Ruth may have been murdered, there never was enough hard evidence to open an official murder investigation.

 

[markmar]

Marius,

I think the event you are referring to was when Erwin and his father went to Anza-Borrego Desert in 1919 trying to locate the area of the third map (a Lost Gonzalez Mine). This was when Adolph fell into a gully in the dark, shattering his hip and leg. This earned him the silver plates, pins, and screws by which his body was identified.

Mike

Mike
I believe Adolph Ruth went in the Superstitions to locate two spots. One of a Peralta cache and another of a Peralta mine. For the cache had the Khiel map and for the mine had the Perfil mapa . Actually, the Willow Spring where Ruth had camped, was not that in the West Boulder Canyon, but the Laurel Spring from the Khiel map, which is at the end of the Peralta Trail in the East Boulder Canyon, few yards to the north.
Then , the Peralta Canyon was named Willow Canyon, so the trail was named Willow Canyon Trail and for this the spring at the end of the trail was known to the ranchers as Willow Spring.
How I came to the conclusion Ruth had the Khiel map? Dave ( azdave35 ) few years ago wrote he has seen the map that was stolen from Ruth and on it was written about a Laurel grove. The only map on the LDM collection that mentions on it a Laurel grove is the Khiel map. So, I decided to give a better look to this map, despite it's was written in English. And what i have found? It's a Peralta style coded map which use English words, thing which had not surprised me too much because I have seen a Peralta map before ( the ORO MAP 1915 ) in which they used both Spanish and English words. So, with the help of GE and using the codes on the Khiel map, I was able to find the spot of the cache. And then what i found again? The directions given on the map are exactly the dimensions of the edges of an open space in the brush around the spot, on which they marked also with rocks at few feet intervals. They chose to give a route along the edge of the open instead to write " Go from the stump 12 feet to the NE ".

 

[Michaelj400]

Goodness sake. What an incredible read this has been!

 

[sgtfda]

The 2nd addition of Jack San Felice Finding El Dorado is out. Includes photos of the lost Adolph Ruth maps that were found on his body. This book is a must read if you into the Ruth story.
Azjack212@gmail.com

 

[HappyTrails55]

The 2nd addition of Jack San Felice Finding El Dorado is out. Includes photos of the lost Adolph Ruth maps that were found on his body. This book is a must read if you into the Ruth story.
Azjack212@gmail.com
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Yeah, well good luck with that! If you all only knew the facts instead of the Legend, but Loose Lips Sinks Ships....I have the REAL MAP and I have been there quite recently (Jan., 2023) Darrell Lane

 

[Matthew Roberts]

Maricopa County Sheriff's photograph.

Deputy Lon Jordan stands beside a white sheet thrown over a rock to orient search aircraft looking for lost prospector Adolph Ruth in the summer of 1931.
The Sheriff's photo is captioned, "Ruth's last camp" and the location is noted on the back.

The location noted is the northwest end of Peters Mesa. Personal items belonging to Adolph Ruth were found there along with a camp under Laurel trees about one hundred feet away.

The sheet over the rock is approximately 3-4 miles north of where Ruth's remains were later found on the northeast end of Black Top Mesa.

 

[Clay Diggins]

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Maricopa County Sheriff's photograph.

Deputy Lon Jordan stands beside a white sheet thrown over a rock to orient search aircraft looking for lost prospector Adolph Ruth in the summer of 1932.
The Sheriff's photo is captioned, "Ruth's last camp" and the location is noted on the back.

The location noted is the northwest end of Peters Mesa. Personal items belonging to Adolph Ruth were found there along with a camp under Laurel trees about one hundred feet away.

The sheet over the rock is approximately 3-4 miles north of where Ruth's remains were later found on the northeast end of Black Top Mesa.

Laurel trees in Arizona.
Did Ruth plant them there?

 

[Matthew Roberts]

Laurel trees in Arizona.
Did Ruth plant them there?

That's what the Maricopa County Sheriff's wrote on the photo.
You will have to take up your _ _ _ _ with them, not me.

 

[Clay Diggins]

Thanks so much for sharing your ____.

 

[deducer]

Laurel trees in Arizona.
Did Ruth plant them there?

hahahaha!

Are you really saying there's no Laurel trees in Arizona?

If I can find and post a picture of a laurel tree in Arizona, will you agree to self-ban for one year?