QUEST OF PIRATE HOARD
PRETTY GIRL’S ADVENTURE To find a hoard of pirate gold, buried many hundreds of years ago by one of the band of the famous pirate, Morgan, a pretty Northampton girl is shortly to set out on an adventurous quest. . She is Miss Gladys Sprigg, the 28-year-old daughter Ml a retired architect, and she was married lately to a young engineer, who is to accompany ber on her mission. Miss Sprigg stated that she believes herself to be in possession of an authentic map drawn by one of Morgan’s band showing the spot in Jamaica where they buried a quantity of treasure, including doubloons and jewels.
“My fiance discovered it in the back of an old boob on a second-hand book stall in the Charing Cross Road some months ago,” she said just before ber marriage. “We have had it examined by experts, who are convinced that its antiquity at any rate is genuine. There may be nothing in it, hut it sounds too much like a genuine thing to be ignored.” Miss Sprigg’s husband is financing the expedition.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1004, 21 June 1930, Page 30
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182QUEST OF PIRATE HOARD Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1004, 21 June 1930, Page 30
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