Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1913 — FAIL IN BIG TREASURE HUNT [ARTICLE]

FAIL IN BIG TREASURE HUNT

Ship That Carried Women Seeking Burled $18,000,000 Returns Sorely Disappointed. San Francisco, Cal.—Failure of another expedition sent in quest of a legendary $18,000,000 treasure cache on Cocos island, in the South seas, was recorded here when the British steampship Melmore put into port These fabled millions, according to a dying sailor, were buried on Cocos island by officials of the Peruvian church early in the last century. Mrs. l Barry . Till and Miss Davit. English women, were told by the sailor on his death bed of his knowledge of the location of the cache and supplied with charts. The women succeeded in interesting British capitalists, and the Melmore was purchased for the expedition. Mrs. Till and Miss Davis accompanied the party and directed the operations of the fortune huntens. After many weary months of labor with pick and shovel, the searchers gave up their quest and started homeward. The Melmore put in at Panama, where the two women and others of the party left the vessel, to proceed homeward by the most direct route. Within the last fifty years a half dozen expeditions equipped with ample funds to search for the gold believfed to be buried there. In each case the incentive has been the same —the some sailor'-to whom had been bequeathed charts showing the location of the treasure.