Show an old buccaneer 1 I recently met a survivor of pirate La fittes band of freebooters said thomas haines once a lieutenant in the united states navy he was a tough looking specimen and must have been well past eighty years of age for it is wore more than sixty years since lafitte bad his headquarters on galveston wand and preyed upon the commerce of the gulf the relic of those halt half forgotten times was an inmate of a jersey city charitable institution and was nut not much inclined to discuss bygones lie he said however that lafitte was a very hand bome F frenchman hman more than six feet in 1 height well made and possessed of wonderful talents as a commander he ruled the toughest lot of men ever congregated gre gated on one island as though they wf were ea a flock of lambs occasionally a la lakness kIess spirit would rebel however but 1 hi aisi lays days thenceforth were brief and full of trouble every woman who fame caine in in contact with lafitte fell in love with him and he was as safe among his fe male friends in now orleans as on galveston island surrounded by liis his armed buccaneers bucca i st louis globe demo crat |