Show captain kidd again thrills english spirit new eff effort ort 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 book shop which seems to bear a striking resemblance to oak island six miles from chester nova scotia where captain kidd is supposed to have buried his spoils details 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 having been hidden being only 1 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 of an oak platform every ten feet and at the ninth an undecipherable inscription on a flags flag stone metal bars parchment coins and ax heads have been found but all the shafts fill with water at the depth of feet and the new party is planning to offset that difficulty with pumping arrangements five well defined drains have been discovered built of flat stones and all converging at one point aj from gardiners gardinere Gar diners island off the east end of long island about was recovered from captain kidds treasure buried there kidd was hanged at execution dock in london in 1701 but he left a wife and child child in new york |