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Show Captain Kidd Again Thrills English Spirit; New Effort to Find Treasure Captain Kidd again is thrilling the adventurous spirits of England, as plans go forward for a new effort to recover his treasure. A map has been found in a London Lon-don book shop which seems to bear a striking resemblance to Oak island, is-land, six miles from Chester, Nova Scotia, where Captain Kidd is supposed sup-posed to have buried his spoils. Details De-tails of the map are, of course, a deep secret, but money is being raised and plans made to attempt to recover the treasure next summer, reports a London correspondent in the Chicago Tribune. In all 38 shafts have been sunk in and around that part of the island where there are indications of something some-thing having been hidden. Being only 12 miles from tip to tip, the place is fairly well pock marked. The early searchers took their tip from an oak block which hung from an oak tree over a depression of about 12 feet in the ground. A platform of oak logs was found and a man-made wall beside it. The next lot of searchers found the same kind rf an o;ik p!atf rm every 'en foot and at the r.in'ii an undeciphorahio inscaiy'ticn en a fa- stone. Metal bars, parchment, coins and ax heads have been found, but all the shafts fill with water at the depth of 100 feet and the new party is planning to offset that difficulty diffi-culty with pumping arrangements. Five well - defined drains have been discovered, built of flat stones and all converging at one point. From Gardiner's island off the east end of Long island about $70,000 was recovered from Captain Kidd's treasure buried there. Kidd was hanged at Execution dock in London Lon-don in 1701, but he left a wife and child in New York. |