| Show TIIE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING MAY 3013 2S Gy-- ) How Rich Romantic Southerners Plan Fwd ie Buried Treasure Hidden by h lV Brigand Morgan and Murrill" Emperor of the Underworld i a Mississippi River Bluff A Bevy of Natrheg Beauties Turn Bark the Pages of liistorr to tha Crinoline l)as M hen Aaron Burr and Andrew Jackson Did Their Courting There tried to talk But what he muttered about most often m his lucid momenta was the fortune he had hidden in the Devil’a Punch Bowl Ever since his passing parties of hopeful men have tried their hands but without success at wrenching the sect et of the treasure from Mother Earth This though it is firmly believed by many that a goodly portion of Sir Henry Morgan’ loot is also buried m this perfect hiding place And the more romantic-mindeare not at all sure thst violent and blood thirsty brigand the V Lafitte too did nut use lafitte the Notorious the Devil’a Punch Bowl Pirate From a Paint-I- n as a hank Certainly hr Howard IN Ir tha name of the depresH hich hov the Brigand sion in the bluff would Guarding the Men Dighave appealed to these ging a Hiding Place for hearty racketeers’ sens borne of Hit IrraMire of what was fitting Devil's Punch Bowl Morgan was of course One of the most famous A A iewr of he Qnlel Town of Nati her Miss It Stands a Few Miles From the Devil's on the Mississippi gigantic depression of all pirates He fought ill boon B Made a bluff on the Misis-aipp- v Punch Bowl VI hrro an I xtenaive Hunt for Treasure Buried by Pirates the Spanish and sacked River a few mile — e they had their en- their New World settleMiss gives above Natchez I ments in the grand mancanipmcnts promise of shortly becoming if' X i Ih king of all ner Morgan roved the t’-the scene of one of the most s w as 1hea marauders seven seas about on extensive pirates' tieaure hunts John A Murrill His hundred and fifty year recent tears men dominated the before the time of MurFor decades stories have been current rill that of 1 countryside then a in the vicinity that Sir Henry Morgan ii f vast wilderness counfur Henry Morgan Nemesis a river pirate Sir Henry ‘1 the extraordinary British cutthroat He and auih of the Spanish Mam Legend Morgan try was born in Jean Lafitte and John A Murnll men as Morgan tho Has It lie Buried Much of Ills Wales during the time of Napoleon of the old South’s most noHarpe and llate loot in the Devil's Pumh Charles I Going to the torious outlaw band buried their floui ished in the early Bowl New World he watched gold in this very aptly named with jealous eyes Spain part of the nineteenth Devil's Punch Bowl Devcentury and the A group of anstorratie Southerners draining th New World il s Punch Bowl was their headquarters of its virgin riches have decided to settle for all time w heth-e- r for years At the head of fifteen hundred the crater made by a huge meteorite But it isTfurrill’s name that is most and cavaliers of fortune Morgan that fell on the bluff in prehistoric times closely associated with the picturesque stormed San Lorenzo killed the garwas really the banking place of these crater Murnll not unlike certain kingrison then marched west With twelve marauders pin raiketeers of the present time hundred men he crossed the swampy Certain strange scientific phenomena dreamed of establishing a mighty crimX jungles where so many English solobserved for years incline these inal einpue His domain was to be the diers and French d to the belief that the riches engineers were to die and engaged thg great West then just opening up later wrested from the countryside in the t Operating from his headquaiters in Spanish governor in furious battle olden days by Murrill and the heaps of the erster that will soon be excavated doubloons Morgan won looted Panama tortured from ships Spanish plundered Cl Murrill organ- many of the inhabitants ana reduced by the treasure-seeker- s on the Spanish Main by Lafitte and the ised a conspiracy for the rebellion of the city to ashes Then h returned to redoubtable Morgan lie buried in the The Jamaica with the spoils slaves for Christmas Day 18J5 k rubble of the crater negroes under the leadership of his It has been fairly definitely estabInvariably captains of ships passing white lieutenants were to turn on their lished that this within range of this point along the ewaggering pirate-reachemasters the mouth of the Mississippi Mississippi shore find that their comH Even more ambitious was the plan and it is thought thst he started up f N passes are greatly disturbed sometimes for his criminal kingdom But the plot that great water artery 'h spin completely around home authori was discovered by the authorities in And some historians claim that he ities say that this is because an imMurrill was imprisoned with like Lafitte secreted much of his booty time mense amount of iron was sunk into tha i Many of in that great meteorite-mad- e hole eighly of his earth by the prehistoric meteorite the minor leaders were hanged by the At the time when Spain and England Others remembering the old legends vs fkikffw 4 f infuriated Mississippi planters when s(gned a treaty to enforce order tn the say that the instruments' antics are due they heard that a wholesale slaughter West Indies Morgan was sent to Engto the presence in the crater of great 5 X been planned land in chains for his crimes But he pots containing gold and silver coins A hadMurrill in prison collapsed comwas o adroit in his pleading before Located on the Clermont plantation “T This eccentric master brigand Charles II thst that pletely but the Devil's Punch Bowl is a gigantic who had bien charged with every crime astute monarch allowed the fierce pirate pit somewhat in the calendar of to enter his service It covers many acres and en- Ult 441 viciousness Rich in American history Is the town could larges slowly almost imperceptibly not stand confineof Natchez which is so near the year by year The center Jooks as if He became ment Devil’s Punch Bowl It was the bottom bad suddenly dropped out of practically an imbe- named for the Natchez Indians this portion of the earth and to its cile when he labbled lor s time these red men lived at precipitous edges ancient forest trees neaie with th white settlers but a perilously cling until disintegration brutal drench governor ordered them slowly carries them down to the depths to move and the result was the masbelow sacre of Fort Rosalie in which two hunThe puiuli bowl resembles the crater dred and fifty trench were killed and of a long extinct volcano In the past three hundred women and children were many sanguinary expeditions have been taken captive undertaken to find the pirates’ gold said In the summer of 1791 at the old home to be buried there But nothing on the of Thomas Marston Green Andrew scale of the present search has ever Jarkson “Old Hickory" who was later been attempted to become the President of the United The romantic spot was a hundied States was wed to Rachel Rohardi in years ago a lookout point for bandit a ceremony that was destined to be gangs a hideaway for runaway slaves branded as “illegal” by his political The river pirates who infested the Mis- enemies And much of the absorbing drama of Aaron Burr’s life was played out against the ' bai kground of the eoft Southern breezes and green trees of th town of Natchez Burr had bien of the United btates and had slam Alexander Hamilton in a duel at the tune he arrived at the river community bringing along with him nine fiat boats The hederal authorities accused Burr of nourishing ambitions to found a new colonial empire with himself at the head An armed force of the territorial authoi itii s stopped Burr at N atehez held him for trial and searched the nine craft for powder ami firearm a Nothing was found In Natchez incidentally the charming and accomplished Burr was treated more as an honored guest than a men accused of a high crime Whilo he awaited trial he mixed in the best society and won the heart of a beautiful girl who lived in th town I ooklnf Arrosa the They fell in love tho story goes and Mississippi at the Bluff the young woman whom history identiV here ihe Pre Histone fies only as “iVladeline" promised him Meteorite Pell Making the her hand But Bmr never returned to Huge Depression 'lhal Nerved Natehez after being cleared in Wash“Bank’’ fe Brigands a Hundred ington of th crime of treason and di4 Aaron Burr V( as Intrrlsinrd and This la the Floe Old Southern Mansion t here the bears Ago Pell in Loe wills “Madeline" in Europe an outcast u d T1 NA yY’C: j ’'I land-lubb- H aol-dio- rs 0®f v x rs des-line- lfJ -- f 'V A J U d 'xrx 'mf J tXXr xmv semi-circul- -- good-nature- d cone-shap- legend-wreath- Da-hi- ed |
