Show KKESTEI FOR EMBEZZLEMENT Ur Adams Falls to Find 30000 Hurled During the War CHIC 100 September 10Tho Times New Orleans special says Dr Geo J Adams of Massachusetts was arrested here today I enrged with embezzlement by a number of i persons whom he defrauded out of money to I arch for hidden treasure Adams claims t I have been a practicing physician in Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts When the war broke out he shouldered his musket and joined Company A 17th Massachusetts Volunteers a por non of the command which came with Butler But-ler to New Orleans In the foregoing expedition expe-dition three soldiers the regiment entered dwellings on Magnolia plantation twenty miles above Xew Orleans on the right bank of the river and carried off some 30000 I 1000 in dollars and the rest in gold Being afraid to enter the city with so much money II on reaching a pecan grove about lialf a mile 1 from the locks at the Company Canal opposite oppo-site Greenville or rather the upper end of the Exposition grounds they selected a tree prominent for its size and some peculiarities in nppairance which made it conspicuous At the foot of the tree they buried the money and then took bearings one of the party being a civil engineer Each of the three men were furnished with a copy of this and the marauders returned to New Orleans intend the and the ing to return after war recover uuiiey His two companions were killed and Adams was desperately wounded soon after Adams was taken to a Southern hospital hos-pital and left it paralyzed and perfectly helpless When he recovered the use of his limbs only a month ago he returned to i New Orleans and at once began to search for his treasure He found to his dismay tint all the older pecan trees had been cut 1 jn and only the young trees were left awl was consequently unable to recognize the tree under which the treasure was buried He devoted himself however for three wef k to delving for it A few days ago he took everal other parties into partnership vth hIm who advanced a better outfit for surveying the land and digging for the buried money but as he has succeeded in unearthing no treasures his partners had linn arrested today |