Woman Seeks Henry Morgan's Treasure

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29778, 22 March 1962, Page 8

Woman Seeks Henry Morgan's Treasure

of two chests and dispose of it in New York. “It is quite illegal, that is why we kept it a secret. We hid the other chest in a cave. I know exactly where it is, but by now it is probably covered with vegetation. “The expedition will cost about £50,000 and it will be worth it, even if we -find somebody has pinched the treasure. I intend to take eight persons as well as a crew for two boats, includin divers. "We found the treasure buried on the island quite near where Morgan lived. Lots of his crew’s descendants still live there,” she said. The “Daily Herald” reporter asked Miss Mitchell-Hedges if she thought there would be any danger. "I can look after myself,” she said. "I once shot three men stone dead one after another, just like that. "They were all drunk and they attacked me. One was a descendant of Morgan’s crew.” According to the "Daily Herald," "She didn’t elaborate.”

LONDON. March 20. “There were lots of church ornaments, chalices, diamonds, rabies, gold Mid silver. Henry Morgan must have taken it from a galleon with cargo intended for the cathedral.” In this way Miss Anna MitchellHedges described to the “Daily Herald” the pirate treasure she has already seen and which she hopes shortly to re-discover on one of the many islands off Honduras. She was last there in 1934 with Frederick MitehellHedges, explorer and author, whose adopted daughter she is. She always has with her two perfect blood-red rubies in the form of earrings as a reminder of Morgan’s treasure. She took them from the treasure chest before it was re-buried.

“It was my father's dying wish that I should complete the expedition we left off in 1934,” said Miss MitchellHedges. “I am the only person now living who knows where the treasure is. "We found three iron chests in all, with a sort, of a minedetector. My father managed to smuggle out the contents

(Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.)

Miss Mitchell-Hedges said she would pick her crew carefully. They would all be wealthy and, therefore, she judged, unlikely to cut anybody's throat, even for the fortune.