Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1919 — DEAD MEN’S SHOES. [ARTICLE]

DEAD MEN’S SHOES.

Synopsis*—‘The man -who Telia this Story—call him the hero, for short—is Visiting his friend John Saunders, British official in Nassau, Bahama Islands. Charlie Webster, a local merchant, completes the trio of friends. Conversation turning upon buried pirate treasure, Saunders produces a written document purporting to be the death-bed statement of Henry P. Tobias, a successful pirate, made by him In 1839. It gives two spots where two millions and a half of treasure were burled by him and his companions. The conversation of the three friends is overheard by a stranger. whose face is deeply pitted by small pox. The document disappears. Saunders. howevef, has a copy of it. The hero determines to go in search of. the pirate treasure and charters the Maggie pail! iig. a LiTffrtWUmasted schooner. The pock-marked man is taken on board as a passenger. bound for Spanish Wells. Old Tom catches a "sucking flsh,” of great virtue as a mascot in connection with the seeking of buried pirate treasure.