TREASURE MYSTERY.
l Mr. .Wigglesworth, an Englishman, who lives at Arcis, is to make a search for mysterious treasure buried by one his ancestors in that .'portion ."of the wall of > Joan' of "Arc's Tower, at Rouen, which. formed' the old dungeon of the'castle:
-The' treasuTo had been a family tradition;but its' whereabouts were unknown. .. . Mr. Wigglesworth states that one of his ancestors wis a bailie, or mayor, of Rouen at the time when the town belonged to the English. He says that he. discovered quite recently some papers which prove that treasures belonging to his family were hidden in several places in tho ruins of the old town.of Rouen. One place indicated was a hole in the Joan of Arc Tower, covered by a stohe, oh which' the word "Open" was cut in English. The place was examined, and a stone was found bearing tho letters "en"-the last two letters of the" word "Open."' '.' '.. \ ' ' Mr. Wigglesworth has. had photographs' taken of air the places indicated, and in every case the photograph shows that the brickwork has been interfered with at some distant date. One of the statues in the tower' 'of which a photograph has been taken, is that of an ancestor of Mr. Wigglesworth. He has written to the Ministry of Fine Arts a? 1 * take up tho stone • bearing tno 'letters en,' and secure the treasure if he can find it, . -'
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 94, 14 January 1908, Page 6
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234TREASURE MYSTERY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 94, 14 January 1908, Page 6
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