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BIG POT OF GOLD DUG UP AT NIGHT? rContinued from page two.) got rid of him by giving the negro some change with whieh to buy whis k.y for himself. He sa.- as soon as he z. the money he went straight to t:i' 1lispmsary and boug it his whis kc,. and when he retur-ed the man was -one. Ne more was seen cf 1m by the neghb:rs about the p1aen and noth in very strange w. att:a; ..d to his :e:lin na"il lat- n: to .ieriioon of fe folioewing dzay,. i !; c : was dis covered that a hole had been dug un der the house. on th - west side, near the front and about eight feet from the side of the builHing-in other words about centre of the west front room. An examination of the hole developed the fact. according to those who inspected it that evening, that a pot or other vessel had been removed from the bottom of this hole, which was about four feet in depth. A pick, which had been used in digging the hole, was fo.und lying nearby, but there was nothing to indicate just what the "diggers" got by their e1forts. "Dat strang man.'' as the negroes refer to the gentleman seen around the premises Monday afternoon, has. ;iot been seen since, and they connee the hole in the ground under the house with his presence there the af ternooa before its dis )very. And they are positive that what came out of that hole under the house was noth ing less than a pot of gold. This house, which is just now sur round;d with so much mystery, is probably SO years old. It has been rght there as long as the oldest in-' habitant can remember. And there have been stories passed around among certain families in the city of Columbia for years that there was a pile of money buried somewhere about this house. Martha Holmes, ,who has owned the house for more than 30 years, says that she has been told by many people that money was buried about this place, but she paid no attention to the stories, and now she is grieved by the visions of thousands of dollars of gold and sil ver coins ne:tling smugly in an old rusty pot right beneath the house ~which she has owned so many years. She is worried because she Leels that :other parties hu e secured the *wealfh that was really hers. She went down yesterday and took a look at the hole. She saw nothing but the hole, and then she went back home and began to see the visions of the pot of gold' that might have been hers if she had only "investigated'' just a little. She is worried no little. Two Prominent Citizens. There is no "story'' better thaa a pt-f-gldstory. The reporter folwed the trail persistently, an2 the further he went the ,more the mystery deepened. Instead of two strangers with dip needles. he founi that the men whom the Holmes wo man told about were South Carolia ians and one a Columbian-and both prominent citizens. The "Mr. Ful ler'' is none other than Mr. W. W. Fulmer, member of the Columbia po lice department, who lives at 1215 E lmwood avenue. The "Mr. Black well'" is in reality Mr. J. A. Black welker, president of the Bank of Chapin and suiperintendenlt of the Newberry knitting mills. Mr. Blackwelder could not be reached by telephone last night at 'his home in Newberry, it being stat ed that .he had left there last night for Charleston, but Mr. Fuimer ,was seen and readily gave a statement about the matter. He said that ha and Mr. Bla'ckwelder had called at the Holmes woman's home about rent ing the houxse at 1100 Huger street and admitted that he called a number of times later and fially closed the trade with her for the house and de livered her the cheek of Mr. Black welder for the first month's rent. He says he gave the keys to Mr. Black welder, but denies any knowledge of the hole in the ground or of any pot of gold. He says that Mr. Black welder spent Monday night of this week a.t his housee, going home with him from the police station at mid night. He say, he and Mr. Black welder went "straight'' home and that if the latter left his house at any time during the night he was not aware of it. Mr. Fulmer stated that if Mr. Blaekwelder did the diggings under the house on Huger street -i was for the purpose of testing the soil to see if a cellar could be put in. He was asked if he knew what Mr. Black welder rented th'e house for and why he was so anxious for it to pay the rental charged. He replied that he understood that Mr. Blackwelder was going to move to Columbia and would himslf occupy the house. In regard to the statement made by Martha olmes that he told her that Black -u-~ -a from North Carolina, Mr. Iulme. sai(: "Well. that is where lie wras fom1 before lie moved to Newbv' lie said he had known i Mr. Bl3ackwelder for a number of years and that tli.ev were giod c friends. lie was asked about the state ment regarding Blackwelder's coming here to) work for thle New York, Co-1 lumbia & Georgetown Steamship j ;ompany. He said : "Well. i heard thim y soimetlhing about the boat 1 company and thought maybe that is < what he was coming here to live for.'' c Mr. Fulmer stated thatl he had not heard until last night about a hole havin, been discovered under the nouse named. He said that he had not been at the house and if Mr. Blackwelder had anything to do with the diaging of the hole it was more than he knew. And he doesn't think that Mr. Blackwelder carried any I pot ,of old away with him. Whether any pot was taken out of t that hole or not and whetcher or not t there was any money in the pot if it c was found, there is an air of mystery I about the entire transaction. , S t Pots of Gold. Many Sought, but None Found... Many visitors were attracted yes- . terday to the little four-room house i at the corner of Huger and Senate c streets. where the ;ot of gold is sup posed to have been found Monday t night. The hole under the house was examined by scores of people f and there were numerous theories i advanced as to the purpose of the parties who did the diggins, suppos- r edly under the cover of darkness. The i Sale of Personal Property Of the ESTATE OF t Will W. Spearman, Deceased, I As executors of the last will t and testament of Will W Spearman, deceased, by order of the Probate court of Newberry County, we will sell at his late residence, near Silver Street, t in the County of Newberry, State of South Carilina, to the highest bidder, therefor, at public auction, on Wednesday, January 15, 1908, beginning at 10 o'clock A. M., the person al pr operty of which the said ~Will W, Spearman, died, seized and possessed, consisting among other effects of, TEN MULES, ONE FINE BROOD MARE, TWO JERSEY BULLS, THREE MILK COWS, *FOUR YEARLINGS, EIGHT FAT HOGS, SIX FINE BALTIMOR$ HOGS, TWENTY TONS OF HAY, FOUR THOUSAND BUSHELS OF COTTON SEED, FIVE BUSHELS OF WHEAT. FORTY BUSH ELS OF SWEET POTATOES. FORTY BUSHELS OF PEAS, FIFTEEN HUNDRED BUSH ELS-OF CORN, FIVE TONS OAT AND WHEAT STRAW, TWO THOUSAND POUNDS OF FODDER, ONE ro-HORSE STATION ARY ENGINE AND BELTING, ONE 60-SAW COTTON GIN, ONE CARRIAGE, ONE BUGGY, EIGHT HARROWS, ONE Mc'CORMICK HARVES TER, THREE MOWERp, 2 REVERSIBLE DISE PROWS, TWO2-HORSE CH A TTANOO GA PLOWS, ONE LOT OF HARNESS AND GEARS, ONE SIXTEEN SHOOTER GUN, ONE BREECH LOADER AND ONE PISTOL. ONE AERMOTOR AND TANK ONE LOT OF COTTON PLANTERS AND FARMING IMPLEMENTS OF ALL KINDS. ALSO A LOT OF OTHER PERSONAL PROPERTY OF WHICH THE SAID WILL W. SPEARMAN DIED, SEIZED AND POSSESSED. TERMS OF SALE: CASH. M. A. CARLISLE, JNO. C. GOGGANS, Executors. lhiieation in the State V t4erda " -)1oeer:i1 ngH:11' t his 'e 'c ly mys Iter'I us :. - air c(itel a miil.1 .''rsationl and w 1 llscuss ed 11enendly througho'l0,1 '.. Ma:;v. .stories oY hidden trea.u: vere recalled and tihe visit of Shi'r nan in 1865 was, perhaps, the su' cct of diseussi .n in practically Cv ry litme ine fity. Some ndvanced he thleorv that if there were a re :lralci removed from the hole ul erneatih the house at 1100 Huger. it iad contained gold which was for erly the property of the Confederat: tates government. the 'suggestion be :i t:hat it had been hiddenl just be ore Sherman's arrival in the city by ome man connected with the C'on 'ederate mint, which was but one doek away. the old dispensary pro ,erty. The puzzling question to all is how Lid the parties get the information at his late date which led to the dis overy of the treasure which it is b? ieved was found. Perhaps some mal) howing the exact location of the reasure was accidentally found, su' ested some; others put fo-th the heory that perhaps some old colored erson who knew of the hiding place ad divulged this knowledge, think ng that it was her duty to tell some ne about it before she died.' Theor es, theories! And the mystery cc1 inues. Mr. W. W. Fulmer, the police of eer, who was instrumental in clos ng the trade for the lease of the pro >erty, and to whom the,keys of the ouse were delivered Monday morn ng, stated last night that he had not eard from Mr. -Blaekwelder and did tot know what kind of statement the atter would make concerning th natter. Mr. Blackwelder was expect d in the city last night from Charles on, but he did not come. It has been asked by many persons Low the hole - under the house came o be 'discovered. This is the ax )lana.tion: Mr Wessinger, who had oc upied that house for 12 years, mov d to a house on the same street three loors above this one. His chickens, n being released at their new hom'e, cent back rto their old quarters. Mr. Vessinger went back late Tuesday af ernpon to this corner house and it va's while 'chasing some of the chiek ns out from under the huose that he (Continued on page six.) 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