When a treasure legend becomes a reality.

[KANACKI]

Here is Pablo Escobar's business partner, Gacha 'El Mexicano' was known to bury his valuables and cash. The agents find a secret bunker underneath one of his estate.



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[Simon1]

Hello Kanacki
I have watched that series and it is interesting. Those guys have found numerous places that appear to have once been used to stash something. Each time they come up empty as far as money or drugs. They have found buried bodies.

 

[KANACKI]

Hello Simon

It was an interesting show. No doubt treasure hunters will be searching for caches of Escobar for years to come. The problem is time and paper currency has a limited shelf life.

Kanacki

 

[KANACKI]

Hello all

Lake Chiemsee there was legend that Nazi treasure was hidden in the lake. Just one of near mythical places where alleged Nazi war loot has been hidden during the fall of Nazi Germany.

Jens Essig, who in 2001 found the 18-karat gold vessel in Germany’s Lake Chiemse while searching for Nazi treasure. Weighing more than 9 kilograms, it is adorned with mythical Celtic and Indo-Germanic figures.

However he thought the artifact was Celtic,



Initially thought to be an ancient gold cauldron dating to pre-Christian times, the piece’s age has been called into question, and a battle is brewing over its ownership?

Josef Hatzenbuehler, who purchased the cauldron this past year for 965,000 Swiss francs, or $1.1 million, has filed suit against Jens Essig in 2015. In 2014, when the cauldron was on the block at a Swiss bankruptcy auction, Essig, who purports to be a German explorer, contacted Hatzenbuehler, encouraging him to buy the piece on more than 15 occasions. In his complaint, Hatzenbuehler states that Essig called the vessel a “genuine ancient pre-Christian Celtic cauldron” and assured him it was worth a great deal due to its “special significance in Celtic culture.”

The arrangement between the two men, Hatzenbuehler maintains, saw him buy Essig’s creditor rights so he could participate in the auction, but did not give Essig any ownership of the piece. In the event of the cauldron’s resale, Essig would receive 50 percent of the profits, but the agreement was that Josef individually would be the sole owner of the cauldron if Josef made the successful bid.”

The cauldron’s Celtic imagery, however, may have been misleading. According to Swiss magazine Mysteries, the piece is likely the work of German goldsmith and Nazi Otto Gahr, and was commissioned by a Nazi party member. Hatzenbuehler’s lawyer, Pascal Piazza, told Courthouse News that if the cauldron does date to the 20th century, “then it’s probably worth only $400,000.”

Since the sale, Essig has allegedly demanded Hatzenbuehler return the cauldron to him. The complaint mentions “some alleged partnership, corporation or other relationship,” that Essig believes grants him ownership rights and prevents the cauldron from staying in Texas.

In response, Hatzenbuehler is suing Essig for fraud, fraudulent inducement, negligent misrepresentation, and breach of contract.

From that sorry state of affairs some times a treasure legend is better off being a treasure legend.

Happy new year everyone.

Kanacki

 

[BillA]

sure does not look old to me
kinda sounds like the buyer-seller match was made in heaven

best new year

edit: 18 carat is improbable

 

[KANACKI]

Now as I have said many times many treasure legends are just legends.But i have always maintained some turn out to be true. Even some treasure maps turn out to real. Contrary of so called academic status quo there is no such thing as treasure maps.

The following treasure map regardless of how crude it appears to have been is real and led to two tunnels of hidden Nazi loot.

Following the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945 by US troops, two secret bunkers were found full of stolen treasures robbed by the Nazis and hidden away. Form direction given to them by a guard hoping to escape prosecution as Nazi war criminal. Up to 20 guards was tried and some executed for war crimes.



Treasure in tunnels consisted of thousands of gold teeth and rings from thousands of exterminated concentration victims.



So once again we have map that actually led to treasure but according to academics there was no such thing only maps in fiction.

Although as I have said the cases are rare but proves the points some treasure maps are real and some treasure legends turn out to be real. It does not as I have stated many times before do not mean every treasure legend is real with or without alleged treasure maps.

Kanacki

 

[A2coins]

Thanks for the post I love the stories half the fun is the hunt

 

[KANACKI]

You might be interested to know....

As of September 2019 there has been a push by academics and historians to explore further Nazi tunnels under concentration camp to be searched for more treasure.

Following the liberation of Buchenwald in 1945 by US troops, two secret bunkers were found full of stolen treasures robbed by the Nazis and hidden away. Some experts believe there could be a hidden amber room at Buchenwald.

Now after years of research by MDR - a regional public service news operation - there are indications that there may be a third site where goods have been hidden.



Aerial pictures of the site from 1945 were examined and there are traces of digging works that had been carried out, which will be among the areas investigated.

Measurements were also taken by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, which confirmed there are cavities in the ground. It is not known whether they were filled or whether the project was completed



A spokesman for Buchenwald concentration camp now a museum said: "Due to years of intense research by MDR, there are now indications that building work took place at Buchenwald under the Nazi regime."It is not known how much of these works were completed and if any hidden treasures are buried there. As a result the organisation has given permission for the investigations to be carried out."

The area has already been sealed off awaiting works to begin.

Perhaps we will hear news in 2020 of the outcome of the renewed search.

Kanacki

 

[KANACKI]

Interesting as we know the perpetrators of this treasure hoard.

Ilse Koch (22 September 1906 – 1 September 1967) was the wife of Karl-Otto Koch, commandant of the Nazi concentration camps Buchenwald (1937–1941) and Majdanek (1941–1943). In 1947, she became one of the first prominent Nazis tried by the U.S. military.



After the trial received worldwide media attention, survivor accounts of her actions resulted in other authors describing her abuse of prisoners as sadistic, and the image of her as "the concentration camp murderess" was current in post-war German society.

She was accused of taking souvenirs from the skin of murdered inmates with distinctive tattoos, although those claims were rejected at both of her trials.

However you can see some one at the camp in the picture below was collection human skin with tattoos.




She was known as "The Witch of Buchenwald" (Die Hexe von Buchenwald) by the inmates because of her cruelty and lasciviousness toward prisoners. In English, she is referred to as: "The Beast of Buchenwald","Queen of Buchenwald",] "Red Witch of Buchenwald", "Butcher Widow",[8] and more commonly, "The ***** of Buchenwald".

She died in prison by suicide in 1967.

Her husband Karl-Otto Koch (German: [kɔx]; 2 August 1897 – 5 April 1945) was a mid-ranking commander in the SS of Nazi Germany who was the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. From September 1941 until August 1942, he served as the first commandant of the Majdanek concentration camp in occupied Poland, stealing vast amounts of valuables and money from murdered Jews. His wife, Ilse Koch, also took part in the notorious crimes at Buchenwald and Majdanek.



Koch's actions that lead to his downfall at Buchenwald first caught the attention of SS-Obergruppenführer Josias, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont in 1941. In glancing over the death list of Buchenwald, Josias had stumbled across the name of Dr Walter Krämer, a head hospital orderly at Buchenwald, which he recognized because Krämer had successfully treated him in the past. Josias investigated the case and found out that Koch, in a position as the Camp Commandant, had ordered Krämer and Karl Peix, a hospital attendant, killed as "political prisoners" because they had treated him for syphilis and he feared it might be discovered. Waldeck also received reports that a certain prisoner had been shot while attempting to escape.

By that time, Koch had been transferred to the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland, but his wife, Ilse, was still living at the Commandant's house in Buchenwald. Waldeck ordered a full-scale investigation of the camp by Dr Georg Konrad Morgen, an SS officer who was an SS-judge in the SS Court Main Office. Throughout the investigation, more of Koch's orders to kill prisoners at the camp were revealed, as well as embezzlement of property stolen from prisoners.

A charge of incitement to murder was lodged by Prince Waldeck and Dr Morgen against Koch, to which were later added charges of embezzlement. Other camp officials were charged, including Koch's wife. The trial resulted in Koch being sentenced to death for disgracing both himself and the SS. Koch was executed by firing squad on 5 April 1945,one week before American allied troops arrived to liberate the camp.

The couple and a few other conspirators was ripping off the Nazis as well as commenting crimes to an excess against concentration inmates. Although one guards tried to get immunity for revealing the map of the looted treasure he still met the hangman. And rightly so.

Kanacki

 

[KANACKI]

Here is another treasure legend that has become reality. Secretly known from at late 1970's

For years local villagers spoke of legends of lost temples below the waters of lake Titicacca. Most was skeptical thinking it was only stories evolved from myths and legends.

In the late 1970's around 1977 a diver discovered a small submerged island near Island de Sol in the Bolivian section of lake Titicaca.

In 2000 Archaeologists found an underwater temple. 1000 - 1500 year old and the size of 2 football pitches. A joint Bolivian Belgium team recovered over 2000 artifacts from the site. Much more was left in Situ. Here is some of the picture of artifacts recovered.



It lead to a littoral discovery of a pot of gold.











So for anyone to declare all treasure legends are just being legends with no foundations in reality it is not quite true because as shown here numerous times some legends turn out to be true.

Why It is fool hardy to believe every treasure story is true? It is also fool hardy to believe every treasure legend is untrue?

Kanacki

 

[Crow]

Some treasure legends are indeed true. While it would be foolhardy to believe all treasure to be real in turn it would be also foolhardy not to believe some treasure tales. Sadly the trues treasure tales might not necessary be in your neck of woods.

One such legend of buried treasure tale thought by many as just a legend.

CROTTY’S ROCK AND LOUGH … County Waterford … The lair of a highwayman and still the home of his buried treasure!



WILLIAM CROTTY was the the leader of a gang of highwaymen who operated in the County Waterford area in the 1700s. His hideout was here, overlooking the lake. So enduring is his legacy that this corrie lake is named after him, as is this craggy pinnacle which was his lookout … from here he could see far over the county.
Access to the hideout was only by a rope thrown over the cliff face. He would come down from his mountain home only to steal from rich passers-by and it’s said that he gave most of the money he got to the impoverished people of the area. His exploits, his adventures and his encounters with the British Army in the foothills of the Comeraghs have been the theme of many a Seanachie tale which have been handed down to us over 250 years.


Crotty's demise is a famous one. After evading capture for many years by shoeing his horse backwards, thereby throwing the Redcoats off his tail, he was betrayed by one of his closest friends. Because the soldiers who were searching for him couldn’t find his mountain lair, they gave up chasing him and employed the services of Crotty's long-time companion, a man by the name of David Norris. After having a meeting with Crotty at the cave, Norris waited until Crotty was asleep and after wetting the highway man's gunpowder (so his gun wouldn’t work), he betrayed Crotty to the Army who made their arrest on February 16th, 1742.

When the Waterford Assizes opened on the 17th of March the most important case before them was that of William Crotty. The sentence of Crotty swiftly followed … he was hanged, and quartered and his head was cut off and fixed on a spike outside the County Goal as a warning.


William Crotty was married and, after his death, the authorities hunted his wife too. She threw herself off the top of this cliff to her death.
Crotty hid his loot under a rock on this mountain but he was unable to collect it because of his capture. The whereabouts of this bounty is still a mystery but William Crotty’s ghost is often seen in the Comeragh Mountains … on a white horse … guarding his hidden treasure, perhaps, or looking for his wife?



In 2015 The following newspaper report of treasure legend coming true come Ireland.



A huge stash of treasure comprising gold bars, coins, jewels and diamond-encrusted plate ware has been discovered in the Comeragh Mountains not far from the spot known as Crotty’s Rock.



For over 270 years there have been rumours that William Crotty, the infamous highwayman and robber, had hidden a vast amount of stolen goods in the Comeraghs prior to his execution in Waterford Jail at Ballybricken on March 18th, 1742. According to official sources the recent find is almost certainly linked to Crotty. Aware of the legend, children on a school trip from New Ross are reported to have found a chalice and some coins as they played ‘treasure hunting’


Their teachers immediately recognised the importance of the find and contacted the Gardaí. The Munster Express understands the find could be worth millions of euro and it is almost certain that a legal dispute will ensue over its ownership.


The 1994 National Monuments Act ensures that the ownership of all archaeological objects is vested in the State. But, does that apply to stolen booty and, if particular objects are identified, could the descendants of the original owners seek their return?




As of 2020 there is stony silence coming from archeologist and the Irish government.In keeping with zero tolerance to treasure hunters. The treasure discovered has simply been held in government coffers held in limbo over the legal ownership of the hoard.

Crow

 

[Crow]

Gidday All

The following story was brought to my attention by the Eagle sharp eye of BillA , so many thanks......

A Polish archaeologist come treasure hunter, has followed a series of historical clues leading to the unearthing of an ancient royal treasure trove.

A village priest, Father Stachowiak, had heard "local legends" about a valuable hidden treasure in a local field. When Institute archaeologist, Dr Adam Kędzierski, was taking photos of the site, where in 1935 archaeologists found “Poland 's largest ever coin haul,” the priest shared his stories from pre-war treasure hunters. Dr Kędzierski is an archaeologist, but in this instance the local priest enflamed his imagination and he embarked on what turned out to be a classic treasure hunt.



The 900-year-old princess’ treasure was found in a cornfield near the small village of Słuszków, in Kalisz County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.





And what makes this hoard special is that while the origins of so many similar caches remain unknown, the owner of this one, is known to have been a princess.

This rare 12th century treasure included coins and jewelry belonging to a famous Ruthenrin princess, who was the sister-in-law of the medieval Polish ruler, Bolesław the Wrymouth, who commanded over the whole of what is today Poland between 1107 and 1138 AD.



A News article says researchers at the Polish Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, at the Polish Academy of Sciences call the discovery “extraordinary.” Their reason for choosing this specific word is because of the bizarre circumstances leading up to the discovery.

The professor says the official narrative claims the treasure was hidden at “the intersection of three plots of land, located in the northern part of the village.” However, when he checked this area it turned out to be a dead end. Notwithstanding, this year, while the rest of us were locked down the researcher followed the clues given to him by Father Stachowiak, and two days later he found the legendary treasure.





Over 6,500 silver coins placed in linen pouches were found strewn among silver ingots: gold rings and wedding rings. The archaeologist said one pot was “filled to the brim with denarii” Roman silver coins that were minted from around 211 BC. A Cyrillic inscription on one of the rings was translated to “Lord, may you help your servant Maria,” and this was what identified the hoard as belonging to the Ruthenian “Princess Maria,” sister-in-law of 12-century Polish king Bolesław the Wrymouth. This is why researchers at the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology of the Polish Academy of Sciences are calling the find “one of the most intriguing treasures in Poland.”




The wife of Bolesław the Wrymouth was a Russian princess named “ Zbysława,” and Maria was her sister, who was married to “ Piotr Włostowic, ” also known as Peter Wlast or Włost, a Polish noble, castellan of Wrocław, and a ruler of part of Silesia. The professor says this means “Maria was the daughter of Svyatoslavovich Isiaslavovich, Prince of Kiev.” After her husband 's abduction of Prince Volodar of Przemyśl, “the coins found may have been part of a dowry that Maria received,” and it’s now clear that she hid it!




Kędzierski added that Maria’s husband's position, and possessions, could have led her to deposit the treasure, and that the wedding ring was perhaps added at a later date. But he also speculates that the deposit might have been made in 1145/1146 AD when the princess is known to have escaped from Poland. And while this hypothesis is unverifiable, it’s “very attractive,” said the researcher, because it explains the presence of coins from before the princess’ marriage.




However the hoard of treasure got to be in that field in Słuszków might always remain locked in history’s chest of the unknowable. But this treasure came as such a surprise, and a threat, that during the excavations local volunteer firemen were employed to guard the site.


Sources: Part of the Princess Maria treasure trove. Source: Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology of the Polish Academy of Sciences / The first News


So it seems that some treasure legends do turn out to be real buried treasure Amigos. While the vast majority of stories no doubt turn out to be just legends. There is always some that turn out to be the real deal when ya least expect it.

That is why you cannot write off all too quickly such treasure legends as just myths without diligent research?

Crow

 

[BillA]

nice research Crow, but what were the clues he followed?

 

[Crow]

nice research Crow, but what were the clues he followed?

Gidday Bill

The site was pointed out by priest Stachowiak who in the early 1980s received the information from stories of elderly farmers then still who whitnessed one of biggest coin hoard discoveries in Poland in 1935.

The hoard includes the largest collection of medieval silver coins in Poland as well as the largest collection, in the world, of the so-called "cross denarii" or "cross pennies" (known in German as Radenpfennig). The hoard contains 13,061 items. Among them are 12,500 cross denarii, early medieval silver ornaments, Polish and foreign coins, silver scrap as well as a rare collection of denarii.

The archeologist of the day in 1935 gave the wrong location but local legends retained enough clues to re-discover the 1935 site and using wheres smoke there is fire principle located another hoard near the discovery site. However what the clues were has not been disclosed?

But for an archeologist to openly admitting he followed clues from what many considered just a legend must be some thing in it.

Crow

 

[BillA]

ah, some modern day detective work
as any miner would tell you, look for gold where it has been found before

Thanks Crow

 

[KANACKI]

Hola amigos

Still regardless the programed masses will hear the same old academic spiel that there is no such things as treasure maps or buried treasure. Yet time and time again they will just ignore cases in question what does not fit into the narrative. While indeed as we have said time and time over again maybe 90% or even more will be legends but there is few that has been shown to turn out to be true.

Like the old legend of the old pirate Thomso Corri on Tristan da Crunha

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/treasure-legends/648676-british-overseas-territory-tristan-da-cunha.html

Today the coins can been seen in the islands museum where they are now kept. Prices of 8 found in the cave where Thomso Corri lived as per legend of him having pirate treasure.

Kanacki

 

[KANACKI]

Tristan da Crunha had another interesting case of a buried treasure from a shipwreck in a cave that was recovered by a former first mate Henderson who used a map of burial site by Captain William H. Summers.

There was court case over the recovery in New Orleans. The plaintiff is a man named Howard F. Summers, and the defendant Henderson ... claims he was robbed of his fathers share of treasure.

Young Summers alleges that he is the only son and heir of Captain William H. Summers, who, before the war, was master of the clipper built brig The Lark. On December 24th, 1864, the clipper-built brig Lark, (master William H. Summers), runs into a storm near Tristan, where she is sighted by a man-of-war, run ashore and scuttled. Capt. Summers and his first mate Henderson succeed in getting a chest containing their fortune as privateers and live some time with the islanders until taken aboard a sailing vessel. Summers dies on his way home.

years later now Capt. Henderson on the sailing ship Rover returns to Tristan with the chart left by Summers and rediscovers the chest: he then returns to New Orleans.

The university of Chicago has documents relating to the story. The Early History of Tristan da Cunha was written by Professor Arnaldo Faustini also makes mention of incident. There are also newspaper sources of day report on incident.

Here is documented case of a treasure chest being recovered by a treasure map.

Kanacki

 

[Crow]

Gidday Kanacki

Here is a newspaper article about the sons claim on part of his late fathers money in The Inter Ocean newspaper Chicago, Illinois dated 31 Mar 1901,



Crow

 

[Crow]

Gidday Kanacki

Here is a newspaper article about the sons claim on part of his late fathers money in The Inter Ocean newspaper Chicago, Illinois dated 31 Mar 1901,

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While I should as add some discrepancies in newspaper reports can be placed as sensationalism from reporters adding little bits to the story.

Here is a more detailed version below.

Chillicothe, O., Sept. 12. — A remarkable suit, which brings into question the ownership of a buried treasure which was secured some time ago on an island of the Tristan Da cunha group in the South Atlantic, has just been filed in the County Court at Jackson, and the progress of the case will be watched with deepest interest.

The plaintiff is a man named Howard F. Summers, and the defendant is old and grizzled Captain Charles A. Henderson, and the story, whose details the filing of the suit has brought before the public, is one which would make Captain Mayne Reid and Clarke Russell turn green with envy.


Young Summers alleges that he is the only son and heir of Captain William H. Summers, who, before the war, was master of the clipper built brig The Lark. At that time she was a smuggler, but during the war she turned privateersman, and was so successful that her captain and crew grew rich.


The captain was especially fortunate and succeeded in amassing a fortune of $175,000, all of which he kept in gold and notes in a heavy chest in his cabin. In 1864 the barque ran into a terrific hurricane and was blown away into the South Atlantic, near the Tristan d'A cunha Islands, where she was sighted by a man-of‑war and was run ashore and scuttled by her crew. All of the crew were taken prisoners with the exception of Captain Summers and his first mate, Charles A. Henderson, who succeeded in getting the chest with the fortune in it ashore and concealing it.

After living the lives of Robinson Crusoe's there for a time, they finally managed to escape, but could not take their treasure with them. On the voyage home Captain Summers caught the smallpox and died, leaving Henderson the sole possessor of the secret. Henderson finally reached home, but was unable to secure the money necessary to fit out a vessel to go out after the treasure. For thirty-three years he laboured to earn money, eating his heart out with the knowledge of the great fortune that lay beyond his grasp; and after many failures it was not until last year that he finally started from New Orleans in the Rover.

He reached the island in April without mishap and secured the money, amounting to $173,320. He got home safely, and since that time has been living quietly, enjoying his fortune. It was not until a few days ago that any one aspired to dispute his ownership of the money. Then a man about forty years of age, who gave his name as Howard F. Summers, reached Jackson, and after a short investigation and a conference with Captain Henderson, filed the suit noted above. He asks for the sum of $86,660, or one-half the amount secured by Henderson. He claims that Captain Summers had a wife and a son at Baltimore, that the wife has since died and that he is the son.


His father sailed away on what was to be his last trip, in 1863, and his family never heard anything more from him. It was known that the bark had been caught in a violent gale, and it was supposed that she had foundered. Mrs. Summers knew that her husband was possessed of a large fortune, but supposed that it had gone down with him. She died in ignorance of his fate, and it was only recently that his son learned of what had become of the money and at once took steps to recover his share of it.


Captain Henderson declares that Captain Summers never mentioned his family, and wants young Summers to prove his claims, which the latter alleges he can do without difficulty.
The island where the treasure was so long secreted and but recently unearthed is situated about half way between the coasts of Africa and South America, in latitude 38 degrees 71 minutesº south, longitude 64 degrees 32 minutes east, and has been christened Summers Island.

Here there was enacted several years before the rebellion one of those exciting dramas of the high seas which make the pages of Marryat and Stevenson and Mayne Reid of absorbing interest to all who love tales of adventure and feats of reckless daring.


While yet a mere boy, Captain Henderson ran away from home and shipped before the mast. In 1858 he had just gone to the United States, after a cruise to the West Indies, and in Philadelphia fell in with one Captain Summers. He said he was shipping a crew in his clipper-built brig the Lark, engaged in the fruit and spice trade with the West Indies and South America, and offered Henderson a position as mate. Henderson accepted the offer.


Just about that time the civil war was opening, the Lark started homeward from a South American port and ran into a violent hurricane, which blew her out of her course eastward and southward for over a week. During this time there had been no opportunity of taking an observation, and Captain Summers had no definite idea as to his whereabouts. On the ninth day the weather cleared, and an observation showed that the vessel was far out in the Atlantic, only about thirty miles south of the Tristan da cunha group. That same afternoon the look-out discovered a cruiser steaming at full speed, apparently directly for them.


There were lively times on deck when Captain Summers gave orders to put the ship about and try to run away. As a last desperate effort to elude the cruiser the brig ran into a little cove sheltered by a long reef. The cruiser could not enter the cove, but hove to outside and prepared to lower her boats. The only refuge for the crew was on the island, and there they were safely landed in a hurry. It was at this moment that Henderson learned the secret which had puzzled him. Captain Summers took him down into the cabin, and, closing the door, said:

"Henderson, I have here a chest containing nearly £35,000 in money. I want you to help me to take it ashore and hide it. If we succeed in getting away we will divide the money. If one of us dies the other shall have it. We can find a place on the island to conceal it."


Henderson agreed. After the crew had gone ashore he and the captain lowered the chest into the boat and rowed towards a part of the beach as remote as possible from where the crew had landed. Henderson and the captain jumped into the luxuriant under brush which grew down to the water's edge, dragging the heavy chest between them. After traveling a considerable distance they stumbled upon a natural cave, and, entering it as far as they dared, concealed the chest.


They remained there the rest of that day and all the following night, and it was not until the afternoon of the next day that they ventured out. Creeping cautiously down to the beach, they discovered that the cruiser had disappeared. They also saw that the Lark had been scuttled and sunk in the waters of the cove. Soon afterwards almost all the members of the crew joined them, and it was evident that the crew of the cruiser had made only a superficial search for them.


An exploration of the island, which was made the next day, showed how small it was, and Captain Summers determined to try to reach the Tristan da cunha group, which he calculated wore only thirty-five miles to the north. So the captain and the mate set sail in the small boat, and the crew in the larger one. The treasure was left behind, as the officers did not dare to let the crew suspect its existence. The boats were separated during the night, and the larger one was never heard of again, but on the morning of the second day the captain and Henderson sighted land, and finally reached the largest of the Tristan da cunha group. Here Summers caught the small-pox and died, and after several months' delay Henderson was picked up by a passing vessel and landed at New Orleans.

Henderson returned to Jackson, and after thirty-three years of saving, managed to get enough to buy the Louisa B. at New Orleans last January. He overhauled her and rechristened her the Rover. Claude Thompson, of Jackson, was taken along as mate, being a man upon whose courage and honesty Henderson could rely.


February 22 last the Rover started from New Orleans. Her departure and the purpose of it were noted at light in the New Orleans papers. The Louisa B. had formerly been the Frolic, one of the fleet of the Southern Yacht Club, and was a staunch little vessel. On April 12 the Tristan da Cunha group was reached. On April 14 Captain Henderson landed on the treasure island, and with but little trouble discovered, by the aid of his charts, the cove and the treasure chest. Its contents were found intact. The wreck of the Lark lay at the bottom of the cove.


One thousand dollars of the treasure were distributed among the members of the crew. The return trip was almost without incident, save for the fact that the Rover met baffling head winds and was over four months getting back to the United States, narrowly escaping capture by a Spanish cruiser on the way.


Captain Henderson landed at Philadelphia, where he deposited $150,000 of the treasure, bringing the remainder home with him. This $22,000 he has shown to many people in proof of his remarkable story, which is confirmed in every detail by Mr. Thompson. He also has his certificate of deposit in the Philadelphia Bank, and the most persistent doubters have finally had to admit the truth of the story.



Crow

 

[Crow]

Gidday amigos

United States, Ohio, Jackson - Court records

Index to records, vols. A-Z, and vols. 1-28, 1816-1904

Family History Library

United States & Canada 2nd Floor

Crow