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and had a good time in the liquor shops and
saloons, with the young ladies in the dance
hall. Until, one fine day, a U. S. marshal
arrived on the scene with a warrant for the
man’s arrest. He was taken to California
and died not long afterwards in Folsom or
San Quentin. Mr. Lubbe says it was
thought he made a death-bed statement to
the warden as to the exact location of the
treasure.

Let Mr. Lubbe himself tell what he
knows of the Leechtown treasure: “I first
heard stories of the treasure when I was a
small boy in the 90’s. A frequent visitor
at our house was the late William Ralph.
Sometimes my father would ask him how
things were with him and what he had been
doing lately. If old Ralph was reticent
about talking, it meant only one thing—
that he had been out to Leechtown again,
treasure hunting, and was not quite sure
that he would not be laughed at for chasing
wild geese, as some people of that day re-
garded all treasure hunting expeditions.
Ralph, a professional engineer, with a
magnificent Dominion Government transit,
was thought to stand a very good chance
of finding it, if it was still there.”

Tt was not until 1915, Mr. Lubbe says,
that he again heard of the treasure, this
time from a Capt. Martin who had been a
prospector at Leechtown for many years
and who had acted as an assistant to
William Ralph.

. “Whereas Ralph had always been very
reluctant to talk about this treasure, Martin
was very loquacious and it was from him
that I got the story and the supposed loca-
tion of the treasure,” says Mr. Lubbe.

A DEATH-BED LEGACY

But old Capt. Martin, Lubbe says, was
a little bit confused as he lay dying on a
hospital bed and divulged the location of
the gold dust. He said it was buried 150
yards, or feet, or 250 yards or feet north-
west from the northwest corner of the
largest house in Leechtown. What was the
largest house? It was either the Govern-
ment office or the dance hall. Nobody
knows for sure now, but both have been
used to measure distance in the hunt for
the gold.

The story goes on that three men, one of
them the warden to whom the bandit was
supposed to have told of the location of the
treasure, arrived at Leechtown and spent
a week there. They had three packhorses.
When they departed they left their tools,
picks and shovels behind them. They could
have found the treasure and left in a hurry,
but Lubbe thinks not.

“I would say that if the warden did not
get it, it is still there,” Mr. Lubbe says.
“And if the warden had only the descrip-
tion as we know it, and had depended
purely on precision or surveyor’s methods,
we can be assured that he did not get it;
because precision methods are only good
when based on precision work, which I do
not think a man like the bandit could do.”

Now how did old Capt. Martin learn of
the location of the buried treasure? From
Ralph, of course, when he was Ralph’s

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