Show SECRET OF COCOS ISLAND An English Admiral Who Believed In the Stories of Burled Treasure Admiral H st L II Palliser died suddenly rnt his country house In Chi Chester goglarlll In YlBlam > recently Ho served time Baltic and Black sea during the rrin SSdron war 111111 In command of a squadron throllghollt watched British Interests r the Carllst war In 1871 lie was the commander In chief of the Pa cue squadron from ISJIG to 1890 It Was during his command In the aciiic that Admiral Ialllsor came In to possession of what he thought to bo the secret IIf tho burled treasures of the famous Cocos Island and on board her mjp8tys ship Inipcrleuso I made the first of II long 1 series of In effectual efforts to unearth the burled millions The Into Admiral received the R ecr0l from captain Hackett when the latter was on his deathbed and was so Impressed It by that do spite all failures he remained a firm believer in tho existence of the treas tireThe The story of the Cocos Island tress I r0mi Is one IIf the most romantic and grilling character Ono vast hoard of valuables Is supposed to havo been deposited on the Island which lies COO miles southwest of Panama by a Brit matt shill lllch had turned pirate In 1821 Tho second and more valuable treasure was burled there by tho crew of the harken tine Mary Dler about 1S3G This hoard was supposed to be the bullion and Jewels of tho Peruvian town of Callalo which was threatened with revolution and pillage The na tional treasure was put on board the BrItish ship for safety but the crew betrayed their trust and fled with tho rich cargo The value of the two treasures Is supposed to be many mil lions At least JCCOOO worth of valuables were taken from the Island by a man called Kenton This man died and bo ciueathed tho secret to Hackett Since tho later confided In Admiral Paltscr some half dozen fruitless expeditions have been fitted out and have search ed the sol of the Island One of the latest was led by Earl Fitzwllllam in 1905 but Ills party met with a disaster disas-ter In the shape of a landslide during blasting operations and seven of them were Injured Several companies have been formed to equip expeditions expedi-tions but needless to say none of them has overpaid a dividend |