Five Gold Bars Fisherman’s Find

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 February 1932, Page 8

Five Gold Bars Fisherman’s Find

PIRATE TREASURE.

Received Tuesday, 7.0 p.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 22

A Nassau (Bahamas) message states that the police report that Gerald Fitzgerald, a poverty-stricken fisherman, found five bars of gold, valued at 60,000 dollars, in rocks beneath a wild plum tree on the shore of New Providence Island, an apparent ancient pirate treasure hiding-place. The spot was marked with the Freemasons’ insignia. The British Government acquires approximately two-thirds of the value of the gold.

FINDER TO GET ONE-THIRD

New York Times Broadcast,

BAHAMAS, Feb. 23,

Five gold bars valued at 60,000 dollars were found by the police yesterday when they took Gerald Fitzgerald, a poor fisherman, to a spot along the south shore of New Providence Island, where he had diseoverod the treasure last October. Fitzgerald had found the jgold cached in rocks bearing a sign of Freemasonry. , The story finally leaked out and the police asked the fisherman to show the spot. Yesterday the party went out and found the gold, which is evidently ancient pirate treasure. Fitzgerald will receive a third of the treasure, and the remainder will go to the British Imperial Government.