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London - Hupetes Bercion
Kendall McDonald tells another of the world's strangest stories
Mysterious
Deaths
At
The Lost Dutchman Mine
THE beat haze rippling across the Arizona
T
desert in
Summer seeing
0
lap like 11 sen against eliffs which rise Jagged
sheer from the desert foor 40 miles east of the town of Phoenix,
Val-
Those cliffs are the
of the gaunt guard
And it happened in the very Badly wounded, Weiser stag- Superstitution Mountains.
next visit to the mine-somme gered and crawled neross the Canyons criss-cross the in- time in 1884. Some Maxlenn. Gita Desert. Before he died he terior in hopeless confusion peons molested Indian Work, told his story to a doctor.
The beneath
The battle begah. cafled
mipe was no longer
secret But the exact location was not Weaver's Needle..
know!), That was the one thing that Weiser had not made dear before he died.
peak
And somewhere, within a radius of two und half miles from the peak, buried more riches than
Are
✡
The Apaches-on their home tround-attacked and for- thrée days barrad the Mexicunt frum une end
the Superstition Mountains to the other. Finally Dan Engico tell somewhere the canyongan Apache arrow though his neck. Only a few Matiche escaped.
Walle alugued to the 101
camp and found beside the nine sample evidence of the Apache hatuck, Cric-striken Find be- leving his parufer dead, he left The mine and never returned He died many years later with out telling anyone reliable
man could hope to spend in лін lifetime. Somewhere there is the Lost Dutchman Mine -
whose mine treasures nee] IIO back-
Up to now the etion back breaking panning, whose been confbud the wildnerness gold can be separated with of the Superstition Mountatis, the fingers from the soft and the trail in Mexico. volcanic earth.
where the mine was situated,
and rock and painstakingly There was no trace of a map camouflaged the Jurface. The mine sear blended with the rest of the wild mountains.
In the years that followed the Apaches were huntest down and driven out of the Superstitions. They were no longer a danger to. prospectars
fortune Beckers But no one found the unkno That is until 1931.
10
J May 1931. Adolph Ruth arrived In the Superstitions
He country.
was believed have an old Mexican map show- Ing the location of the mine.
Although Tame and no longer
In
or documents of which he had spoken. But in a memorandum book in his clothes жего tan- talising this of Information. The last but one was "Vent, Vidi, Vk!"" (I came, I VY
found conquered). Had Ruth the "ming? Ho may have done, for the last entry, hastily jotted down in pencil rend: "About 200 feel across from cave.”
No one was arrested for the murder -- and more fortune- huntera came and went safely. The flow slackened off during the war, but livened up again afterwards. Until
young-he had silver plate
s leg as a result of an accident
Adolph Ruth would not be James A Cravey came to dissuaded from going into the Phoenix in 1940. He Bald ho Superstitions, despite
but the fact was a photographer,
had too, that they were almost waterless retired. He,
clalined to
in that season.
know where there was a phenomenally rich inho In te Superetitione — that had been covered ovET.
to
Two prospectors took him into He brought the modern touch the maze of canyons on June 14.
prospecting. On June 10, The day afterwards they re: 1947, Mr Cravey was flown by turned and wild that they had hellcopter into the Superstitions left him encamped at a water with all his gear. hole in West Boulder Canyon. The pilot Chuck Marthens-
Later the owner of ranch
reported that he first landed on spot nearby became worried and
a peak to allow Mr Cravey had went to look for the old man.
get his bearings. Cravey looked more The camp was there but it was
Uietr had not been there for the pust
24 hours.
If he had returned he might At this not have recognised the however,
two German unself The Apuches
fund immigrants enter the story...
that naore and
Into gkonghold in search of the mine. And they determined to put on end to the foreign "invasions."
to
Jacob Weiser and Jacob Waltz. people, Mexican and American, obvious to searchers that Ruth around and finally pointed with
were died
From Jacob Wallz the mine was to receive its nathe, although he was, to fact, German and not Dulch.
Tie Linen
saved the fe
Scores of men have FIL that gold. Some were wiped out by Indians whose very name means "enemy" -the Apaches. Others were shot because they found the of the son of Don Earlen in a brawi iri Mexico after he mine and talked. And two American Civil War (in which
modern times, the last they had served). In 1947, were found mur son, Don Miguel, they went to dered-and beheaded,
In
the mir
FLEC
With
the
uwiy
brought "about sixty thousand dollters worth of gold." On their return to Mexico Don Miguel asited the two ex-sukliers to give him their share in return for the deeds of But knowledge of the
He had no wish to the mine. exact location of the mine return again and run the gaunt-
with those has died
few let of the arrows that had slain
his fauver.
penetraung
The
WITO
And they would not find him. Local sheriffs were warned and soon
arrived to deputies continue the search round could Weaver's Needle. They And no trace. The Needle
stands In.
northwest
the
complete assurance to a canyon and said that he wanted to be put down in the bottom of that canyon.
Chuck Marthens was the last But before that, in 1880, two
Cravey
alive. person to sce young soldiers are said to have middle of three canyons West Despite careful searches he was found the mine. They
Boulder and not found until February 21. murdered-not by Indians-for Boulder, East
of due cast the money they obtained for the Noodle Canyon. The three con- 1048-in canyon
The skeleton of Weaver's Needle, first load of ore they brought verge two miles Into the town of Pinal. And the peak and there is a mile was complete
except for the they were muntered on the way long ridge covered with dence skull. That was found Inter hack to the mine.
spring ridge Adolph near Bluff Spring-the secret bush. On this
walled up by the Ruth had spent his last moments. that was dived with them.
But it was not until December Mexicans so many years before.
found Or
or mur. Then the Apaches found what that the skeleton was
Cravey's murderer They thought was
of rather the skull with a bullet derers
were never found way who knew it. Even today So the mine became the pro- stopping the "trespassers.” In hole through it. A month later, spite both those beheadings the groups of Americans spend perty
Dutchman Waltz and Weiser, They later years an old Apache told in January, 1932, the rest of the hunt for the Lost holidays searching for the returned to the mine, worked it this inte. Working ali one skeleton was discovered-some goes on. There's gold in them
and ran out provisions, Waltz winter the
distance Lost Dutchman.
Apache squawa considerable
from ther hills-if you know where
went to get more.
While he supervised by the bucks-filled where the skull was found. to find it. But the Apaches and hidden doubt was away the Apaches attacked in and completely covered the Among the bones was the silver the Superstitions have can be no
Weiser.
mine. They packed down earth surgical plate.
their secret well. that the Dutchman exists. The first clue comes in the year 1748,
There
Then, as a reward
to
for
the
services rendered Spanish crown, Ferdinand
IV of Spain bestowed grant of land to a
Don
Miguel Peralta. The amount
韭
DIAMONDS – THE NEW RACKET
NY
A some wire gauze, and any Liberians awake
".
De
the
Monrovia. £2,000,000. Liberia handled lounged on the only chairs The stuff is carried in "shoo Joe with a spade, most and that did not keep available and stared at us for heels, in cigars, In motor tyres-- three quarters of an hour, by. or merely in a screw of paper in at of land given was astound-
my watch, so help me.
the hand of a Mandingo tribes- ing-about 3,760
no regard for the law nights.
worlding. through square
Time to note à few things- man miles, the middle of which can get diamonds north, President William Tub- for.
example, the paunchy frontier bush. Liberian cast, and west in mun,
frontier ia now the State of Arizona.! south,
policemen of Liberia, told the with American cop badges and nip out of hore and make five- There are small plance which The descendants of this family Britain's Sierra Leone. Legislature the other day guns on their fat thighs. minute touchdowns on isolated either discovered the gold mine When he has got them that last year's export of But when it comes to dia- airstrips to which the couriers themselves or had it pointed out he hears the call of the bor diamonds was about 19,000 monds the boys freshen up and trump from Koindu, Penderbu, to them by the Apache-der--the frontier of the carats. Excuse my smile if make quite a show. A sweaty and other market villages on friendly, unsophisticated
policeman took fully 20 minutes the rim of Sierra Leone. with no idea of the trouble the Negro Republic of Liberia, it is showing. I now one to deal with Redfern.
The rasket begins with arrivol of the white теп Diamonda pre bursting operator here who handled
youth like All. My seat partner
heralded for them.
Evidence shows that a Don
out all over Sierra Leone. 30,000 carats in December tugged Redfern's pipe out of his
A kind of cop's labourer in the plane told me about him.
Many of them are along alone. river beds outside the
pro-
mouth as he entered the inspec tion hut, which WOR Over- crowded with four persons in It
About Ali
operational area of tho Slow Motion
It was the floor-and a nithy. All was happy as a £3.10% o Enrico Peralta in the 1800s Diamond Selection Trust,
The republic's own
ono-Zor Redfern's nylon shirts month house stoward for a West to which, on paper, has the made several expeditions the mine. Each time herom жnopoly of production.
duction is small; most folk and tropical anery as his boudian with a good job in the longings wore unloaded, finger Blerra Leone Administration. turned with mule trains "Inden And you can tell the here have "gover seen any ed, and squeezed,
Then he left, without explana- with baskets of the heavy gold
Liberians are interested in signs of diamond mining. Ha, ha! While the beety, boya tion. tro aminky šimolf syn in the diamonds by the unloving But across the 200-mile were having their fun a dozen After six months. All
diamond "barons mainly Euro- appeared: In a wide-brimmed shape of a funnel-the widest way they frisk your tooth frontier are at least 20,000 peans in this town five miles hat, loud shift and flashy shoes. end upon to the airy It was paste, shaving cream, your Africans who pick them up away were doing what they do He told ble astonished bou, my more like a pit than the con- ties, and even your trouser and bring them here. avery day, '-- shilling sterra companion, that he had", cono ventional mine shaft. As the
This is strictly a slow- Leone's diamonds to Barne and DM (meaning illicit diamond Mexican minera thig deeper they turnups when you arrivé. "
Beirut,
and mining) had maße thetype. On each shelf They have a right to be motion republic. A Botto Monhattan and they frod notched timbang, to interested. Liberia ls on the stationary attitude" is ac enable the intner with the way to becoming the cepted as good for the which will retallat 4000 doting, county ll want to lon the set- Some are splendid for the stoned collected 400 Clara Léone Indap sack to climb back to Ch
quick army. The stores, well My biggest market for racket health.
Xhe number of spades they.
engbig
byuk the "rocks in the worlds Bukk
[Sierra Leo
diamonds needed!
the the moving a PATIE
John Redfern
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