Show f y agog over ridden hidden trea treasure sure no ito little excitement has been occasioned near waynetown Wayne town by some mysterious excavations and the reported retno removal vai of buried treasure on the broderich farm several miles from that elji place ce about forty years ago a band of robbers and counterfeiters counterfeit ers ets headed by old jason ason spray caused a reign of terror in that section i they were known to have cap erred and concealed large au sum of money finally the section arose in arn arms and wiped out tho the whole nest except a couple of the desperadoes named wright VV right and newman who escaped sea search ach was made for their ill gotten gains without success and the robber band and its ita hidden treasure eventually became only gossip and tradition the old spray cabin was a haunted for many years but was finally burned and tor for the fee last quarter of a century the very location has been lost sight eight of it merely being known that it once stood in one of the broderich fields the ithe other morning the men on this farm upon going to work in a wheat field were astounded to find a long trench french dug in the earth ending at what brov proved to I 1 be the fireplace of f the old spray cabin the stones of the hear hearth had been plowed over until two feet under ground go 60 the person unearthing 4 liem must most have had bad an abc acc edge of Ihei location these siber atones had been removed by tho the persons excavating cavatino cava ting g and two holes sunk in the ground for some soma little depth from one of these it was evident that a box had been taken and carried off whit what it contained and who took it are questions which have set the whole region agog two texans who had been loitering about and who disappeared the night of bf the digging are supposed to have some connection with the affair it is said that they obtained a knowledge of the buried treasure from wright or newman and came after many years to claim it indianapolis news |