GOING AFTER TREASURE
FORMER CAPTAIN OF I’M ALONE
Captain J. Randell, one time master of the rum-running schooner J.”m Alone, which was shot from under him hy an American cutter, is, after new adventure. He is going treasure-hunt-ing. ■‘l know where there is sunken treasure worth millions of pounds,” he declared a few weeks ago. “it is possible that I may be after that treasure in course of the next few months., ‘‘l cannot give you any details of • the business yet, but I have been lucky enough to get remarkable concessions from a foreign country in the matter, and 1 have been intouch with one of the big salvage companies and gained their interest. I know quite positively th.at there is treasure in a particular fq.ot. and I mean to make a bold effort to get at it.” Captain Randell admits that if he could buy the kind of ship he wants Would be hack nfc bum-miming tomorrow. “But it would have to be in pry own way,” he said, “and I would break any of the laws of either Britain or t.be States. My car- ' be transferred on the high ■nssas.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1931, Page 2
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193GOING AFTER TREASURE Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1931, Page 2
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