Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1890 — FOUND BY A SOMNAMBULIST. [ARTICLE]

FOUND BY A SOMNAMBULIST.

Treasure Hidden in the Mammoth Cave Located in a Singular Way. Cave City Dispatch, Sept. 80. A remarkable somnambulistic feat was performed a few nights ago by Christopher Medway, of this place. Mr. Medway is a prominent lawyer and a scion of one of Kentucky’s oldest families. In 1861, at the breaking out of the war, his father packed up his silver plate, which was very valuable, and hid it in tbe Mammoth Cave.. This was done in the midst of great hurry and confusion, and owing to some oversight the place was left unmarked, and when, in 1865, tbe Medways wished to dig the silver up no one could recollect with any certainty the spot, and though it was sought for, off and on, for years it was never located, and the numerous excavations resulting in no discovery, it was finally believed that some one had stolen the box and refilled the hole. Mr. Medway’s father died convinced that it was so, and for more than ten years no one gave further thought to the matter. But recently Mrs. Medway revived the subject by re la* ting the story to Borne friends in her husband’s hearing, and that gentleman says he went to bed wondering if his father’s belief in the theft of the box was correct, and that, on falling asleep, he re-enacted the scene of the removal and burial of the silver at which be was present, though only a boy of fourteen. When he awoke he found himself lying pn the ground close to a large rock, land in black darkness, except for a faint gleam of light in the far distance. At first he experienced some difficulty in realizing where he was, bnt when he did, concluded, on remembering his dream, that he had managed to slip by the night man into the cave, and his memory singularly aroused in his slumbers, had found his way into the spot where he had seen the silver buried twenty, nine years before. After marking the rock, he made his way to the gate through which he saw the morning light stealing, and, as he w*s in his night dress, calle4 to the watchman and dispatched him after his clothes. He then hired workmen to dig in the spot where he had found himself on awaking, and soon had the satiafactUm of seeing them lift out the case of silver, which, being opened, wu found intact.