Show 11 TREASURE HUNTING 1 I 1 an old sea farer organizing an I 1 1 expedition 4 ai I 1 UK HE nis HAS STRUCK domima EICH RICH 11 10 la 12 wand in n the cambin ses sea abere spanish Dou doubloon bloom il i the ara are hid bid I 1 i away la ill the euth earth I 1 4 I 1 FORTUNE BUITER 1 I 1 aa an old volaver fitting ip rp an expedition lip dilion to 11 yang lost treasure special 3 F chronicle Chron fete service YORK yore oct 24 capt kobert robert A annett known among his a safari afar ing in companions and friends as jonah a man whose adventures would fill a dozen volumes whose I 1 body bears marks ol 01 tigers claws and whose hair in one night turned from rom jet je black to snowy white from fear ear arrived in this city from baltimore today to day he ile is to here for the purpose I 1 ase of organizing another expedition in n search of bidden hidden treasure 1 the treasure which he proposes to search for ia is supposed to have been hidden by pirates on the island of santa catalina in ia the carridean Carri bean sea the island was formerly the headquarters of capt met morgan an a buccaneer I 1 neer an and d lies in about latitude Fati latitude tude 11 do grees reea north it Is a mile in circumference mountainous and a network of caverns according to tradition morgan who was a sanguinary pirate I 1 buried all his wealth on the island when he was finally capt captured ed by a british man of war ar he be offered joo ell tell the location 0 bis his buried treasure i if his life was sp arelL but bis his oner offer was s spurned and when he was executed j A buted the secret died with him there are two men capt Cap annott I 1 says who wh a know all about the treasure 1 1 one of these si is john curry carry of 1 kingston jamaica who found in a spanish doubloons doub ions loons lie he landed i from rom a spanish vessel in in search of food and water and accidentally discovered a cave he 11 e says there were nine earthen jars each as high as a i man mail and filled to the top with spanish doubloons doub loons lie ile took with him worth all he could conveniently carry ho ile went to jamaica w heria ha he spent his fortuno in five years when his treasure was exhausted 1 be returned to the island and was arrested attested I 1 by tho the indians indiana of old fort providence and taken to aspinwall I 1 where he was imprisoned the spanish authorities tried to make him tell bo be got the money but he r refuted a I 1 then mr compton british I 1 consul at aspinwall interfered in his behalf and he be was released for this favor curry carry told the consul of bis his discovery I 1 no very and showed him some jewels ho he had found on the second visit As 11 a result compton aenk all his fortune I 1 in fitting up an expedition to search for the treasure and secured the services of a british man ot of war to protect those making the search carry was with the expedition but I 1 on reaching the island he refused refused to tell where the trea treasure auro was hidden claiming that he would get none of it 1 1 when it was discovered then the or crew ow of 0 I 1 alo manof man of war searched for 1 weeks but could discover nothing 14 curra curry was threatened with lynching lunching lyn ching but he 0 remained obdurate and finally 4 1 consul compton in despair committed suicide by blowing bis his brains out 14 I 1 annett has already leaa lead one search party to the island in quest of the I 1 treasure which met with failure it I 1 was on oil the yacht maria which reached the island bland on november 24 i 1887 permission was obtained to I 1 vast visit t the island for the purpose of hunting but the real nature of the expedition having been discovered a 8 P ania h man of war was sect sent to 0 o investigate I 1 ve vesti tg gate to the maria failed away from one side cf of the island while the I 1 man of war was approaching the I 1 other five days alter after leaving ber I 1 1 1 lize ilze the yacht sprung a leak when miles from land the crew were rescued by the arbela of nova scotia one hour before the yacht bank I 1 |