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of . o, 425,19 .5521 is-5, ,,,! ,,, 7 '1 mf ' fl E T 1 I 1 'ig WI ll gl to the Circuit Court. The coin had to be proved spurious, which was difficult. Because a banker had admitted that he was no expert, although he had handled money for thirty years. his testimony was rejected. A practical chemist then tested the coins, and pronounced them fakes. The prisoners were set free after a Baraboo clerk testined that counterfeit money had been passed to the men by him at the Baraboo store. The next day a peck of bogus half dollars were found near lronton where the men had slept. REAL ESTATE DEAL L. Gay Sperry owned the block on which the St. Peter's Lutheran Church now stands, which he wished to sell. In the autumn of 1856, he devised a plan to get rid of this property at a tidy profit. A letter was prepared, supposed to have been written in England to a friend in Cincinnati by the last survivor of a band of Mississippi River pirates. The letter declared that the pirate band at one time ascended the Mississippi to a certain point, landed on the east bank and traveled eastward to a point on the Baraboo River, where they buried a large amount of gold and silver coin. There was a minute description of the locality of the treasure enclosed in the letter. It was written that the treasure was in an iron pot, with a charred stick planted upon it and running to near the surface of the ground. This letter was dropped near the residence of a banker in Beaver Dam. He soon found it and hastened to Reedsburg. He met a Reedsburg Judge on the way and confided his business to him. The Judge immediately became eager for treasure, and accompanied the banker to Reedsburg. After a thorough search they became convinced that the treasure was buried on Sperry's property. The banker inquired the price of the property, and Sperry told him that a stranger from Cincinnati had offered him 52,300 for it, but his price was fB2,400. The men immediately purchased the property. At night they brought big sacks to their new purchase to carry the money away in. They found the charred stick, but after many hours of digging, they failed to locate any treasure. Sperry had put across one of the biggest real estate deals in Sauk County. Page Ten
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