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Show mumi Negro Told His Guard of Treasure Buried in Philippines San FrancLa. Sept. 22 That a tale of hurled treasure In the Philippines Philip-pines induced Private F. W. Brooks of the I'nlted State hospital corps to liberate William Splllman, the ' negro trooper under life senteuce for the Killing of a fellow soldier, and ,; that both men are in biding some-' some-' where about the city, waiting a chance to aiake their way to the is-lands is-lands and dig up ihe gold. Is the theory now adxHtvcod to explain the disappearance yesterday of tho prls-oner-pntlent. aud his guard from tho general hospital nt the Presidio. It Is state! by soldiers who knew Spillman before he was brought Kick from the Islands tn answer for the crime committed there, that he boasted boast-ed of knowing the whereabouts of a treasure In li'ate and money burled by a Spanish family dur.lng the Philippine Phil-ippine Insurrection prior to American occupation of the islands. Splllman was a member of Troop B, Tenth cav-airy, cav-airy, when stationed at Camp Wallace, Wal-lace, La Union province. It is slated that the quariei which led to the kill-Ids kill-Ids of IrJs fellow trooper at the camp arose over the trensure which they were planning to recover. Brooks and Spillman knew each ether In the islands and, when the negro was sent home for examination as to Ills sanity. Brooks came on the same transport. Ii is supposed that the negro revealed to him the story of trensure and lured him with promises prom-ises of sharing the spoils, into opening open-ing the way to liberty when ehanre made lihn Splllman's custodian at the hospital. According to the report of the treasure treas-ure ci edited to Splllman, It was dug up by n party of Chi nose after the Spanish family had hidden it and conveyed Into the interior whore it was again buried. It is the location of this spot which Splllman claimed to know. |