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Show TREASURE HUNTERS VEX HOME OWNER Chest of Cold Believed Burled on Premises. Baltimore. Life in a house two centuries ami a quarter old, with an Iron chest full of gold popularly believed be-lieved lo be buried on the premises, Is not all romance in fact, It Is clown-right clown-right annoying. .Miss .lanet Ball lives in such a house on the outskirts of Baltimore. In 1771 an ancestor fitted together Its hewn oak beams, and raised its brick vtalls. In the Eighteenth century for two generations lt passed from control con-trol of her family and .lean Cliani-plaigne, Cliani-plaigne, French royalist, merchant prince and refugee, inhabited it and planted both the gold and the annoyance. annoy-ance. Legend says that when be learned his Meet had been swept from the seas 5)y privateers lie rushed into the snow mid buried ?oO,000 in gold, the remains re-mains of his fortune, in an Iron chest. Negro laborers, gypsies, "sorcerers" and prowlers in general have never given up hope of finding lt; and that is the annoyance. Miss Ball Is called by police on an average of once a month "to bail out colored folk just arrested for digging up our front yard. We always do, of course, because the negroes, having grown up In the traditions of the estate, es-tate, are subject to temptation that Is too great for them." Some one is digging dig-ging about the place most of the time, with and without permission. The old homestead was built by Robert Teale on a grant of 10,000 acres given Edwin Dorsey In 1650 by Lord Cromwell. Champlalgne bought It in 1800 wheu he fled the guillotine. |