Show TREA SURE U lide tit 1 APA AP A AM old cad jewels il 4 1 va 1 1 daviti to be to abr some adern e 1 IP 1 0 adventurer A 1 poo J erl 9 q X f 4 u NS ca 0 co where the cowa cows find them treasures which 41 the divers can see but cannot reach treasures where only superstitious tears fears stand in the way of recovery such Is the state of affairs in and about great britain proper one ot of the richest fields in the world 0 for the treasure hinting hunting ad the most ardent seeker of these troves was king john moat most of his time was spent in hunting burled buried treasures ot of other centuries assembling the gold and jewels ot of england and burying them again only those groups of known value and of certain or nearly certain location can be mentioned in this article so numerous are they it was known that the king had knowledge gleaned from old documents that the romans during the time of their occupation had great quantities ot of gold silver jewels and plate in a fashionable resort in the north of england and being cut off in the rear by an invasion of plots and scots burled buried it in a vast trove near the old koman roman wall in northumberland king john made extensive explorations and found a large largo cache made at a later period but did not find the more important store of wealth he removed his find to hermitage castle and according to all accounts the masonry of the wall was opened from the outside and the treas ure hidden once again once since hia his day the true clae to the roman cache was found and lost again through the bru and stupidity of some english county of in northumberland two poor and ignorant farm laborers were working in a field on the line of the old roman ruin one day and sa down in the shade of a heap ot of atones stones for their lunch idly they turned over a large stone and in the bottom of the cavity left they saw an enormously heavy chain pushing away the dirt until they could get hold of 14 it thy drew it out it was several feet in length and weighed enough to make a burden for both ot of them seemingly it was brass and they left it uil till the next day when they were working with a cart at evening they loaded it ft in the cart and carried it home leaving it against the wall of the stable aa as a curious but useless find one sunday when idling with some neighbors they fell to discussing the chain and one ot of the neighbors scraped it with a knife he ile said it looked and felt more like gold than brass and was very soft taking a broken link to the mar bet ket when he next went the elder of the two finders submitted it to a jeweler who pronounced it solid gold of a very fine quality the neighbor who had made the discovery of the nature of the find thought he sho ild have half and be let in on the secret of the remainder this was refused so he informed the authorities and the two peasants were arrested 4 spent a long period in jail and as a result of the ill treatment one ot of them went insane the older had steadfastly refused to disclose the spot where the chain was found having taken an oath when he was flogged in prison that he would never tell any one this was his bis method ot of getting even and it proved very effective it Is curious indeed that the termination of the great treasure hunter and hiders career should be marked by the interment of wealth in an amount ae as great or greater than that in evolved in any of his previous exploits in his historic flight king john johns s party carried with it not only an enormous treasure in the store of gold that represented the royal funds but a cumbersome weight of treasures he had ac quiren and more valuable today than all the others the full regalia crown jewels and in signia of the great orders of which the king was head bead the british museum and the various orders would pay at least 25 for the recovery of these and yet it does not seem a difficult mat ter some individual or syndicate with the proper backing could easily look up the circumstances as contained in the old records and make a con sistena determined effort the royal fugitive and retinue were nere riding in haste around the dip of the wash and the ani ant mals on which the precious load was carried mired so frequently in the lowlands that it was decided to cache the treasure the king and a few faithful noblemen beaded the work impressing some peasants for the labor the records state distinctly that the interment took place precisely where the road crosses the river to lynn the old road ran where there Is now a morass in spring and fall baked dry in eummer summer A few years ago during the drought season some farm ers era sinking a well so as to water the cattle that were feeding on the marsh grass struck an odd crown of solid gold but made no further excava tion by the time london heard of the find the sea son had changed and the spot was a swamp once more there Is no question in my mind after reading all accounts that the treasure is there and can be excavated with a steam shovel floated on a barge into the mouth of the great ouse in 1709 when england was at war with the netherlands 11 M S lutine sailed from yar mouth tor for cuxhaven Cux haven she sank off the island of vlieland Ve Vei leland eland at the mouth of the cuyler zee and only two ot of those aboard were rescued she car 46 it Q A 0 it r gak le V 1 4 4 rr 4 14 4 h I 1 A W Es f W i X M 4 Y I 1 r N 1 i 4 X ai 4 X I 1 he 1 I I 1 A 4 r 11 11 N 4 r kj 7 ij L k Y ried gold and silver specie it was later learned that she was insured for 5 the united kingdom was literally girdled with sunken treasure in the latter part of the six century sir francis drake returned in 1580 from bis his great journey of exploration to california and he had an adequate idea of the vast amount of gold which was being carried in spanish ships from mexico and south america to spain As a matter of fact there was so much of it in spain that the possessors did not know what to do with it and the idea of the great armada may have been conceived as much to find a glorious means ot of expending the royal wealth and the wealth of the ambitious nob es as to have a method of diverting the attention of the poorer classes who were vere very little better off tin spite of the flood of gold that thit had come to the peninsula however that may be the great armada la Is usually considered a magnificent adventure which was meant to crush the power of england at sea and to humble the kingdom 0 a state ot of practical vassalage to spain her bitter enemy the english ships were well trimmed meagerly fitted hessels tor for war war and nothing else the spanish ships had in some cases silken sails many splendid canopies on poop decks gold mounted cannon and even the lowest estimated accounts say that from seventy to one hundred millions in spanish gold and silver was the sum total in treasures distributed among eighty great ships how sir francis drake and the british ad and captains fell on the fleet and scat seat it how in battle after battle it was worsted Is a matter of history familiar to every one the bull of the armada driven by a great storm was hurried into the north sea and vainly endeavor ing to circle by the and the Shet lands and get back to the bay day of biscay through the Miu ches the north channel irish sea and st george s channel was wrecked in strange waters it Is impossible in brief space to go into detail concerning all of these rich sunken wrecks each of thero them that Is known has its more or less nite nits history and from some of them millions of dollars worth of trappings and treasure were recovered in the years fol following loRing soon after the gigantic disaster one of the spanish armada ships the floren cia cla went ashore in the sound of mull in 1588 she had a vast treasure aboard and when she was attacked by a banci band of scots her commander blew her up the duke of argyll spent a fort me ine in the search his ancestors have been hunting since 1664 and in 1667 an announcement was made public that the old records showed that there was 30 in money on ber her besides the gold and liver plate none of it has ever been recovered although the argyll family have the full information of where the wreck lies the cavalier treasure of marston moor Is an othel famo famois is cache for centuries the villagers near the historic field where the roundheads and cavaliers Caval lers contended have been thrown throan into great excitement by finds of gold pieces and by the ar rival it df parties of strangers who the villagers im agine have come to look tor for the treasure the story of this trove is that before the battle owing to the necessity of shifting shit ting headquarters of the king kings s government so often the army funds in four chests each of which could be transported en pannier between two large horses was brought to the cavalier camp A sudden descent of the roundhead cavalry cut off the treasure and its guardian who held out stubborn ly till dark thlen buried the treasure hastily the Cavi Ca villers liers retreated expecting to receive reinforcements and regain possession of the treas ure but the battle of marston moor followed the ground was torn up v 4 u h hoofs fire swept part of the plain and the marks were gone so it has remained undisturbed ever since no not quite undisturbed a village cow found it but she did not appreciate her advantages and could not have told her er master if she had it Is a well I 1 tact fact that when certain forms of stomach trouble affect cows dogs and other animals they seek metal oxides and will swallow nails rusty iron and bits of jewelry this par nicular cow was so troubled her grazing ground included part of the general locality in which the treasure Is known to he lie she was noticed lid liel ing the rusty lif figes ot of the pasture gates licking an old plowshare and some weeks later she gave evidences of being in great pain the wiseacres of the village were called in council and decided that she had swallowed something that disagreed with her and partly cut out of cu and partly through desire to save the beef by killing her before she died the owner had an end put to her misery and an autopsy was as held imagine the excitement when the butchers opened the stomach and amid nails bits of iron and copper found a number of gold pieces of the cavalier treasure and a small matchlock latch lock of the type of which there must have been several on every one of the treasure chests the soil had ben washed or had been plowed over the treasure trea surp and the cow had found it and absorbed her mortal end the wis acres then told the own er that it if he be had but kept the cow alive till she the returned to the spot where she had found the treas ire he might have watched her and soon dis covered it he worried over his tolly folly till he grew so despondent that he hanged himself the square face of gibraltar made so familiar in america by use in advertising in reality fronts ho he landward side between the rock and the miln land runs a flat sandy strip trip that is neither nor blanish gibraltar has always been a great haunt of smugglers and the neutral strip has always been their greatest danger ground in 1870 the dangerous theron band desisted from ng long enough to run some cargoes of arms into spain for the use of don carlos and his army after securing some they set out to effect a retirement from gibraltar and made their way vay to jaen where a wealthy mer chant was known to have some collected in readiness for use in the cause under pretext that they had ha instructions to deliver a shipload of munitions to him at malaga and dis playing the documentary evidences of their late deal with don carlos they persuaded the mer iner chant to accompany them on the road to malaga when a fitting opportunity came they murdered him threw his body into a dry ravine and with their weight of wealth in gold and english notes set out for gibraltar the body was found sooner than ti ey had expected and they were p some ten miles from the neutral ground they were overtaken and a running fight occurred in which hasprey one of the outlaws was killed in a most spectacular manner four of the outlaws crouched among the rocks and held the pursuers at bay anxiously awaiting theron a return put when the dawn came they found that he had buried the treasure turned the mules lose and was making his way bk to them when a bullet had stretched him out dead on the sand seeing this the four now tried to retreat to wad P ad the rock one after the other but they were shot down when it was found that there had been over a million dollars in booty with ith the party a careful 1 search was bagun but the drifting sand had obliterated the necessary graceb and it has never been recovered the wind Is constantly carrying away the sand on this zone and the bitani and others who w tre fre quent it keep a sharp eye out for the rusted cor ner of a steel box some day the money will be found la in fact search with a magnetic inspru ment could disclose it today it if some one on the spot only thought of such a device 7 |