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BAYOU PORTO AT BAY OF BILOXI ON SIW'TITS-TIBLIER PROPERTY
1835 - 1395
The Biloxi News - April 18, 1926 --p 2-3
BURIED PIRATE TREASURE L**3ENDR 0” TIBLIER PROPERTY
The recent recurrence of old legends that nirate gold is buried in Biloxi or in it? immediate vicinity and especially on the Tifclier Tract at the mouth of Bayou Porto vhere there are pinny evidences of figging, led 9 representative of The Biloxi Neva to interview Oept. Eugene^Tiblicr, ..5r., 85 year old Biloxi pioneer snd former owner of this property.
Capt. Tiblier was seen at the home of hi? daughter, t-r. Olivia Tifclier Ryen, on lee r^tr^et, vhere su-rounded ty his children and grand-children he called back to his mind the old legends and his own knowledge of the many effort? in yesrs gone by to find the gold reouted to have teen buried on his old homestead by pirates.
Pirate Treasure T epend
Asked if lie knew when and how the tales of tne existence of buried oirate treasure originated, Capt. Tiblier raid:
"I have heard there tales all my life. Vliicn I vas e smell boy (VJS: 18U8-1B50) my mother said that a Frenchman vas said to have lived at tne head cf Eayou Porto with his wife and daughter. The wife and daughter were said to have been slinhtly demented and were riven to wandering in the woods all day. One day they returned from a trip into the woods bringing a bar of metal incrusted vith dirt which later turned out to be pold. Asked vhere it was found, they would only point in the direction of the place where the old brickyard was later constructed.
"Probably from this incident the report of the presence of gold on this property was started.
Pirate Patrick Scott
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the effect th~t a rirate by the name of Patrick here every three or four months after cruising bury his booty somewhere along the shores of supposed to have treasure buried in a number of plac<
"Some young people are supposed to have followed him one time and to have seen his men carrying three kegs suspended from polos on their shoulders, but the presence of the intruders vas discovered
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