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CAPTAIN SORENSEN CLAIMS TO KNOW WHERE $20,000,000 LIKE AWAITING DISCOVERY BELOW NEW ZEALAND AND 13 AR RANGING EXPEDITION FROM SAN FRANCISCO VIA HONOLULU: TO SALVE MYSTERIOUS CAMGO IN A CAVE. Captain Nels Peter Sorensen of the United States and the whole wider world believes that he has Robert|. Laula Stevenson's ‘Treasure Leland beaten to death, and he is planning 4]1 remarkable expedition from San Fran keseto to prove it He claims to know where $20,000, 000 in gold bullion Hes buried at the bottom of the ocean just where he can get at it, and shows documents to Prove the exislenes of the wreck laden with gold, tallow and wool, just where It has been lying for forty-two years. He {s now in New York, where he rec wides at 112 East Twenty-fivet atreet, but he spent a great deal of his life in San Francisco. He was formerly in the navy and has voyaged all over they world. Captain Sorenson has organized an expedition to go after the buried gold and has given himself just eighteen months to return a rich man. He has made capitaliute believe in the feaat e Duty of this scheme, ‘The captain’s story of the hidden treasure le thin: “May Hith, 1865, the American clip per ship General Grant was wrecked on the west coast of the Auckland Inande in Inhospitable Bay, twenty miles long, 10 miles from the south moutland of New Zealand. “The Geffern Grant had allowed 1 ,000,009 pound in gold billion, whip ped by the Danke, and a milion [peuide fh wold which 150 rehumming Milner were taking back Weed vet ‘them, “the cave tito which the (ence ‘Urant wie thrown Wy Ob fathom dea ad 20) yards long, and the maats just reached the top. The captain and 18 yerlahed “For forty-two years all that gota jas lain there, T have not seen the wreck for thirty years, but she still Now there n sound ae the day who went down, “T have arranged for a concesaion permitting me to land a crew on the Island. The gold is packed in cases, colled case vilied at $5,000. “ a ball start in a few days. The expedition will start from San Fran cisco by way of Honolulu for New Zea land. We shall fit the expedition in Dunedin, in the south of New Zealand, and sail for the Aucklands in a char tered schooner,”
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The Hawaiian Star
Honolulu, Hawaii, US
Sat, Jul 25, 1908
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