A "NEW" ARTICLE ON THE KGC !

EDITOR'S NOTE:  Very interesting !  COSMOWOLFF has promised me ANOTHER article for the July 15th issue of this newsletter.  It will concern the Four Kings Treasure---near the Four Corners area !

Article submitted by: COSMOWOLFF

 

THE COMING OUT

 

From the records of the Knights of the Golden Circle

 

They drew a circle and shut us out.

In vain, they thought they’d won by rout

But men of God, with wit to win.

Drew a larger circle and shut them in.

 

A very strange thing happened on May 19, 1948 at Lawton, Oklahoma.  A very old gentleman who was going by the name of  Col. J.Frank Dalton claimed to be over 107 years old came public and released an incredible, almost unbelievable tale regarding a very secret Southern underground organizational known as the “Knights of the Golden Circle”.    Frank Dalton claimed to be the original, famous outlaw and desperado affectionally known as “ Jesse  James”, who’s Christian name was Jesse Woodson James of Kentucky.   Mr. Dalton claimed that as a result of his legendary past as Jesse James it was necessary for him to stage a fake death way back in1882 so as to be free of the mystic and legendary tales for which he was becoming famously known and wanted.  He claimed in truth that over the years he assumed over 73 different personalities or aliases, some of which had a great impact on the history of this great country.

One of the more mysterious things about this time period is the fact that there seemed to be many Jesse and Frank James’s running around different parts of the county causing all type of mischief.  Many of these other muderous unscrupulous individuals took advantage of their assumed namesakes reputation to do many dishonorable acts, including unmanly murders and other outrageous crimes, all in the name of the “James Gang”.  This is not meant to presume that the real Jesse and Frank James were angels, no, not by any stretch of the imagination. The real James gang killed many of these imposters and actually staged the accepted cowardly murder of Jesse James in St. Joseph, Missouri.

They had to spin and work it so the history books today read quite differently than what actually happened; but given the times, circumstances, and the fact that a number of these thugs, border ruffians and downright dishonorable backstabbers were using and hiding behind the fear and fame of “Jesse James” at the time.  It was conflicting considering the important, vital work of the Confederate Underground Army which he Jesse, along with Quantrill, headed., So what actually happed is quite understandable.

For the sake of this article at times I will refer to this particular gentleman as JWJ.

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It was said that the so called James Gang, Quantrill’s Guerillas led by the famous William Clarke Quantrill, and the Missouri Confederate Irregulars under General Marmaduke or General J. O. Shelby, where nothing more than a secret underground Confederate Army operating secretly throughout the South and Southwestern

United States.  This was the same Gen. Shelby that led his troops into Mexico to help the proclaimed French foreign leader, Emperor Maximilian. Unfortunately Gen. Shelby’s expedition proved to be a disaster and it was necessary for the Knights of the Golden Circle to send in an experienced guerilla force under Col. Jesse W. James and William Quantrill to rescue what was left of Shelby’s Army around 3,200 men. It was also said that the Hapsburg Jewels and heirlooms entrusted to Maximilian by Napoleon Bonaparte

including the Emperor’s personal wealth and a great Aztec treasure vault,  were secured by the Confederate’s and moved into a cavern in a very large and famous peak in the San Andre’s range of New Mexico. Benito Juarez, the liberator of Mexico and his so-called patriots captured Emporer Maximillian and executed him and his entire staff by firing squad.

 

After the close of the Civil War the Knight’s of the Golden Circle moved very quickly to establish a foothold in very profitable businesses throughout the country.  They set up movies houses, livery stables, a clever ploy, mining companies, timber companies and railroad contracting operations.  They even started a chain of drug stores, not to shabby as its hard to fight a second civil wall without a good source of drugs. Later on they moved into the banking business, wall street brokering, money laundering and manufacturing.  They would deposit large sums of money in K.G.C. banks, insure the deposits thru Wall Street Brokers and Bankers and turn around, rob the money back and of course collecting the full amount from the surety insurance companies.

They even continued the practice that they were most famous for which was stealing illegal contraband and of course more sophisticated forms of robbery, a trade that they had perfected into a science.

Every venture had a military responsibility and specific purpose.

A grand plan, so to speak.

 

Does all this sound like a bunch of hicks running around trying to stir up trouble, or does this sound like a group of well trained military men who are planning a grand battle adventure to again fight their enemies, who defeated them badly in the first

American Civil War.

All they had to do was to figure a way to finance it themselves.

 

Stay tuned for one of the greatest K.G.C. treasure tales of them all,

“ The Treasure of the Four Kings”

 

As the story continues……………………………

 

Cosmowolff

 

EDITOR'S NOTE:   The following three email articles were received by me from Keith Wills, President of the World Wide Association of Treasure Seekers  ( www.wwats.org ).  As a group of hoobyists we should ALL stick together and defend our fellow members when they have been wrongly accused by government agencies.

 

HERE IS SOMETHING THAT COULD STAND TO BE IN EVERY

CLUB NEWSLETTER 

Here is a communication (my answer) to Don in the Michigan Club, a very dedicated bunch of detectorist and supportive of Bob and Ed's case.

Thank you Don, but few have realized what your club has and that is it is not a case of Bob and Ed anymore, but a case for the future of our hobby. Back when the Billy Shivers case was going on, the government finally dropped the charges, but only after they had established a case file to use as a precedent of "all items found on public lands belong to the government". That has been used in many such cases across the nation in the last 7 years and was used in Bob and Eds case as well, only they had no items other than junk for the government to claim as theirs.
Way too many folks in our hobby believe that what happen to Billy Shivers, Bob and Ed and several others will never happen to them. They do not realize that every case the government gets away with-- they search to set another precedent to use against us from that case. In Bob and Ed's case it is "Intent Of". Image what the government could do with that precedent in just a few short years. It may even come to the point that you could be stopped in your car on public lands with a metal detector in the trunk and be charged with "intent of". Also, what few have realized is that, in Bob and Ed's case, the federal prosecutor claim it was not neccessary to prove they were on a archeological or historical site to charge them with a ARPA (Archeological Resource Protection Act of 79) violation. If you read the law, it states it only applys to archeological or historical sites on public or Indian lands, but there are three requirements before the law applies, one of which is that they have to prove by site survey that the guys were on the site. That means not just next to it or a couple hundred yards away from it, but actually on the site itself. What is upsetting is a jury of elderly folks, mostly women that have never heard of APRA before, did not get a good explaination of the law and never heard a defense for our two guys, then judged them guilty. My point is: since the guys were found guilty and the federal prosecutor got away with not having to prove they were on the site, only proving they were on Public Lands, then they will most certainly apply this case to future cases against others. The law is plain, but in Bob and Ed's case it was successfully twisted since they had no defense.
We are wasting our time to most of those in our hobby today, for they just can't believe the government can and will do such against us, even when they know it is in writing in the case transcript. It will be too late as usual when those folks wake up to the reality if they ever do.
This is why folks like yourself and your club members support Bob and Ed, but better yet supporting the future of our hobby are such a great site to us all. Thank you and tell everyone of your club members a special thanks, not just from Bob and Ed, but from me as well and from those that really do care about this hobby and it's future. We wish all of you the best year of treasure hunting ever. Thanks again so much....Keith Wills

MY RECENT STATEMENT TO THE FORUMS