Show I HIDDEN WEALTH IS SHOWN IN A DREAM Vision Reveals Gold In Huge Chest Under Rhode Island Trees PIRATES' PIRATES TALES RECALLED l TS rs Money Hurled h by Call Capt I I antI Other Oilier Famous Will ilI ill Xo v be he Ills Providence Pro It n r T. Feb 21 i William Simmons of Riverside lU six Ix miles i below this crt city on Narragansett bay has spent much of his spare pare time in tn the thelast thelast last month digging for burled treasure treas treas- tire ure in ri a spot revealed rc to him in a dream Pirates Pirates' gold od is what ho hopes hOlIes to find Thus far Cal the treas treasure re ha hn hanot hanot not been u uncovered In his dream Simmons saw aw three thre tall trees In In a row near a co corun run- run ing back from flom torn the tho ha bay The Thc goM was sas burled twelve reel feet lIce deep ml midway between n the first t find and n the second tree counting from th the sh short rt side anti was wasn In n a chest cheat bound with Strong Iron IronS S traps strops Psychologists mn may decide for aI themselves themselves them them- selves cs whether Simmons Simmons' dream was Inspired b by the fact that he kneW of or three luce trees situated as ns he saw sa them when asleep The They are on tho the edge ecle or of f Bullocks Bullock's s 's covo cove and are arc the tue only butternut trees In Iii the vicinity Simmons enlisted the aid alt of oC a n. couple of oC friends in hl his digging A After le I tho had made a hole eight feet deep they hey struck water below which th y Investigated as well eil as the they could with t a i steel rod rOll but ut the they haven't ha struck d treasure chest That here is precious metal enough distributed alon along the shores of or Narragansett Narragansett Nar- Nar mg bay hay and the neighboring main min to put the Standard Oil company company com corn pany to the blush is the tire 1 firm tm belief belieff or of f every true Rhode Islander The rhe belief ellef Is based d on the fact that in the thelast last ast quarter of oC the seventeenth cen- cen tury ury Rhode Island vied with New NewYork ew York Tork as ns a n refuge and outfitting place for tor or pirates Captain crys Treasure Bold Bol Captain Aver Avery once landed on Rhode Ihode Island soil soli a a. safe r re- re for Ol his plunder Cl He Hc Js Is the ate ih-ate who was said to tu have hae married ho tho great moguls mogul's daughter daug had Imd n a pin play ilay written TUten about aboul himself an and Is said ald saido to o have havo lied died of or starvation That Avery did capture a quantity of f treasure there Is no nu question and two wo Rhode Islanders served in a n piratical HeN he commanded These were ere William Mayes layes and Thomas Tew TeV Another sea sen robber of Island orIgin was as John Bankes A picture of or the tho stir created by the of or these men has been left by Governor William ilIum who wrote rote when Tew's sloop with for fOl eighty men and anke's Danles bark lay side by side in Newport New New- ew- ew port ort harbor preparing for a cruise Men lemi came me from front nil all the country countr ro roUnd nd servants nt left their thell masters and anti f ons their parents many hid them- them S elves on board It ma may be with a aI a I grief spoken the endeavors some men nen made mario to send awa away the youth or of f the Jan land The Red ned sea was favorite cruising bl ground und for fot this gentry gentry- In 1696 a a. hand band o ot English pirates was th there here re b by vessels comman commanded ed by Thoma Thornas Thorn Thom mJ as a Wake ak Mayes and few Tew Captain vel took command and amI two Moorish Moor Moor- sh ish vessels vero captured From them were ere taken falcon or in sli slier sll- sll Ct er and gold great quantities of Jewels and nd a saddle paddle and bridle set with rubles rubies intended as a present for the thereal great glent real mogul Partner of Captain That a large part of the plunder was as spent In riotous living hiving one can cannot cannot canot not ot doubt but the believers In hidden treasure reassure hope that some prudent I pr pIrates tes put aside a portion of or t their lr earnings against a CI rainy day Captain Thomas Paine of or Newport founder of or Trinity church where fash- fash weddings are celebrated In the twentieth century was one ono of or the no- no characters or the 8 seventeenth He was as a CI friend and some sometime sometime time line a partner of or William Kidd J He lie retired from flOm the exciting life liCe to a a. quiet abode on Conanicut 1 island land In Narragansett bay where a messenger me from rom found him when I lay laya a CI prisoner In Boston Doston To credit ho he sent Kidd seven bars bar of oC go goi with ith which to bribe his ja in spite Slite of which Kidd swung b by the neck lock in London These searches for hidden en tren treasure have haye sometimes mas been rewarded Years I IO Ilo i o on a hill near Cams Carr's pond In Inthe inthe the he South county count r. r resident of or Shar Sha Lea is reputed to have across some of oC the mone money of or a n pirate who vho lived an and died alone among the woods S Another find has In modern times been reported from Gloucester in the northeastern cornet corner of or the state A band of or pirates from justice took refuge In n n cave where th thy y I deposited some Bomo of their gains in an Iron ron l kettle ettla burying It l The he kettle may still bo be seen at nt Gloucester the tho mone money has been spent |