In 1912, as a young boy in Utah and he tried to stop a group of men who were digging up the Cross of Cornado from taking for themselves instead of it going to a mueseum. He failed however after the sheriff came and told him that it was rightfully their property. All monty gets out of it is a grotty trademark hat. Years later he gets the cross from the man who gave him the hat on a ship and escapes just as the ship explodes.