Show THIRTY YEARS HUNT FOR GOLD GOLDa a Antone Glassmans Search for Buried Treasure FOUND IT II BUT ONLY TO DIE WITH SECRET 0 Suddenly Expired When About to Reveal Hiding Place 5 t Sixty Thousand Dollars in Gold Dust f r and Coin Which Was Cocked Away In Colorado By Outlaws Nearly r p Forty Years Ago Thrilling Story Marked By Trail of Blood Ban Bandits tilts Were Guerillas in the Con Confederate Confederate Confederate federate Service I Special to The Herald Denver Jan 2 An Interesting story of the search for buried burled treasure con consisting of gold dust fIust and coins amount amounting amountIng ing to came to light today with the death of Antone Classman Gla n m of Pine PineGrove PineGrove PineGrove Grove Colo Cole has been known as the hermit of Elko creek for a score of years He was 74 years ears old and feeling that he be had not long Ions to tolice live lice came to town wn t today to transfer his ranch where the treasure is sup posed to be burled to a detective Nothing was found in hi his bis pockets pod ets to in indicate where any relatives live JIve and he bas has never talked about family affairs rs Before the notary had time to put pen pento pento pento to the paper Classman dropped dead The treasure ure was cached in 1864 by a gang known as the Reynolds gang headed by Jim and John Reynolds two of the worst or t desperadoes that ever held broth brothers brothers up and murdered The Reynolds Reynold ers era claimed to hold a commission ioD un tin und dr d r the confederacy They carried o the flag fla of the Richmond government and had organized nearly OO men all well known and ad desperate characters in Texas Teas In from Texas they marched to New Mexico on their way to Colorado planning pfenning to capture the state 01 or wage a disastrous guerilla warfare taking up men of the same mme stamp on their way whose adventurous oils ous dispositionS disposition dl would lead them to join the invading forces The Work of Holding Kolding Up The first outrage was the holding up of a Mexican M can wagon train on the Santa SantaFe F Fe train The guerillas guerilla secured gold golddust golddust golddust dust and government bonds to the amount account of and lJ the first t stage raid mid r was waa stained by blood Several of the wounded were left behind Thus weakened the force fon form came oame north into Colorado and where Colorado Springs is now struck into the moun mountains tame for the South Park Many had hadde deserted de and the command was re reduced reduced reduced to scarcely arcely more than a 8 score It was winter and Md the sufferings the thed desperadoes d experienced in crossing ing I the mountain still Mill more reduced the ranks ks They were a bare baIe dozen when whoa near Fairplay they held up a stage stagecoach stagecoach stagecoach coach and robbed tile the mall mail sacks sad the thep passengers leDgerS p and chopped the stage to pieces Proceeding across the Park and into Platte canyon they held up another stage Colonel led troops from Deaver to run down dawn the guerillas guerillas guerillas las In their hurry to escape the con confederates confederates federates burled buried the treasure in a cave nest near the headwater of Elko creek They went south but bum at a battle near Geneva gulch they were ware surrounded and finally surrendered r that IG they attempted On Jh the LU ji pretext C 7 to escape on Oft the journey journay to Fort Lyon Lon they were lined up and shot by the sergeant of the company The mas roes massacre massacre sacre occurred on Cherry creek not far from Denver When Jim Reynolds Reynold the sole solo sur ear survivor of oC the only attempt ever made to wrest wre t the territory from the Union Unton urn was dying he told a a pal of his where the money was hidden and drew a dia din diagram diagram gram TM men man with the map mP in 1111 his possession lon organized a party to search for the treasure but when they got gat into the vicinity they found that a forest fire Are had bad swept t over the district soon after the treasure had been bur buried buried burled led destroying all marks They told the story tory afterwards This TItle is III the treasure trea ure which Glassman has ha been seeking The farmer heard herd the story and bought the place quietly This was waa early in the and since then be he has lived Jived there almost in soli solitude solitude solitude tude with one thought one religion growing more and tore ore feeble shut shuf shuffling fling lUng when he moved palsied pl Imbs and aDd scarcely We able to drive drift his bis horses hotten to toj j Pine Grove for the mail mall mailI I Recently Classman told acquaintances that he found the treasure and andI exhibited the proof but no one was I shown where w re it came from and the se secret secret secret cret if It he found it it died with him 1 I t |