Too bad for the Fisher family that the poor Spanish sailor went to Davy Jones' locker before he could testify on their behalf. What's 400 years?
I just read about the Atocha on Wikipedia (true facts that can't be disputed, ever) that emeralds were kept in the stern castle, but never found. How the writer could make that claim with or without a manifest tells me that legends carry more weight than evidence in most people's minds. Hopefully, not for the judge.
Excuse the dose of sarcasm. All is jmo... except the Wiki article, that was just funny.