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Tukey's Landing
On a spring afternoon in 1862, John Tukey watched a canoe plying the waters toward his property, known as Tukey’s Landing (just at the bottom of the Chevy Chase beach trail). After beaching, three men climbed out, lugging an apparently heavy chest, and disappeared into the dense timber nearby. Soon, two men re-emerged from the forest empty-handed, silently slipped into their canoe and paddled rapidly away. The third man appeared a half hour later, empty handed, and requested a mount for Port Townsend, where he aimed to catch a steamer to Olympia. Tukey gave him a horse, and the man galloped furiously away. Tukey tramped into the timber in search of the stash but found no trace. The stranger was eventually recognized as the paymaster from Victoria who had relieved his employer of six thousand gold sovereigns. He was tried and convicted and died in prison. Since then authorities—and countless fortune seekers—have searched in vain for the buried treasure
On a spring afternoon in 1862, John Tukey watched a canoe plying the waters toward his property, known as Tukey’s Landing (just at the bottom of the Chevy Chase beach trail). After beaching, three men climbed out, lugging an apparently heavy chest, and disappeared into the dense timber nearby. Soon, two men re-emerged from the forest empty-handed, silently slipped into their canoe and paddled rapidly away. The third man appeared a half hour later, empty handed, and requested a mount for Port Townsend, where he aimed to catch a steamer to Olympia. Tukey gave him a horse, and the man galloped furiously away. Tukey tramped into the timber in search of the stash but found no trace. The stranger was eventually recognized as the paymaster from Victoria who had relieved his employer of six thousand gold sovereigns. He was tried and convicted and died in prison. Since then authorities—and countless fortune seekers—have searched in vain for the buried treasure
