Show 9 arm BLUEBEARDS R S CASTLE CASTL 3 u IO n n J The origin of at the tho fairy tales ono one hears in his childhood Is In most cases cn es as unknown ns as the time tale lole themselves are marvelous Probably no story of u a amans mans youth Is letter better remembered than the time wonderful tale of o who was so fond of ot killing his wives A curious sidelight Is thrown upon ullon this story by b one of ot the time In the tho th Brooklyn navy yard ard who vas at one onetime onetime onetime time stationed upon Mien time the cruiser Ne Nev York Tork Ho lie said sold a few rew days da s ago High up on a mountainside which overlooks n a bay In the Island of ot St StThomas StThomas Thomas West idest Indies Indict are the ruins or ot ota orn ora a n stone fortress Throughout all the th island Inland It Is known a III as Bluebeards s cas castle castie castie tie tle Many Man are the tho tales told of or this lids mysterious place around the tho comp camp fires in front of the time little tittle cabins of or island Bluebeard according to those these narratives narrative was vue an did pirate who per yer many man mall bloody blood deeds years and nm years lIUS ago no all of ot which have become In terlo n into Inlo the tso folklore of or the Island One morning tl tb the New N w dropper anchor In the tIe harbor It Is I a n land landlocked landlocked locked locket bay except for or a It narrow entrance en entrance trance such luch as U ono ona finds In many man of ot the West Indian Islands At tl one ono side a mountain il rises es abruptly from fromn the water tenter to a height of or fe feet t and halt half halfway way la up the side on a shelf heU perhaps two tau acres In area stand the thc crumbling walls wails of the old ol fortress Two To hundred mars ui ego RItO these there waters water teemed t with pirates who plunged and aHI killed kill at t every ever turn limit Hut among n them nil All throughout the golf gaff Central C Amer America Ira ica and ami the Weil Indies timers were wre i two men who whose hot names stood stoat out mil OIl above the rest And amid whose doril are rai ed to this day These Th t two tuo men Here vete who had hl Ids his stronghold ld In the th of ot OK the UI and nj who built buIll I his bin forties upon UK the island of St HI StThomas Thomas The last t name n md chose clipse ch pe tits hie ilu ehu It well and for or forty tort rort years yest delta deed the time sail Mil sailors Milon ors on of et Spain Slain nd France In the n new w wI I the thc ruin ruins the day de da after our arrival arthal In CO with Il tie of ot the tho ward wart room and an nn old dark darky whom we wc hired to guide us A narrow nar narrow narrow row steep It p path from Crom tho the shore wound In and out among the rocks r ks and trop tropical tropical ical leal vegetation until It finally brought ui us II to the little shelf helf on 11 the be mountain I J side The walls of Jt the ruins had been thoen by b the earthquakes of ot the tropics until scarcely one cue stone rested upon ulon another Whatever Iron work there had been beon In tn Us lis construction wn was wab years oars ago ngo carried away awny and little re to give Ive more mort tuna than a suggestion of o the previous or style Tho The building had been a 1 fort tort about the tho sUe size of Castle Williams Williamson on nn Governors Island 1 built of ot great Ireat blocks of or stone atomic and practically Impregnable nabla A company or of f met men with frith am om ammunition could have held hold the place against nn an army arm In those days das In front and beneath It lay the hay bay look lookIng looking Ing ns os thoUGh a n stone clone dropped fromm tho mho man hand would strike time the water It towered time the mountain I In the time Interior we found the time key ke to the place In the renter center of or the time ground hoer toor a large opening or fissure leads leal directly downward through the moun mouT I thin lain Inlo into u a I great cave ap which we has previously noticed on con 01 the waters water edge To convince us that It I did lead down downto to the tho water our guide Julle picked up n a 1 large lare stone and holding It over the opining opening let It Il drop A moment later Inter we WI could couleS hor hear gt loud splash as a It struck the water brIl w According to th the sl icy toM toll by b the natives on the Island t In the tho crane T of ot hi hil his galling discovered this thin with fissure In the time ear 11 the mountain mountainside side Ido Clearing bating away n the top tall of oC this opening he built bui a fort Oft and storehouse c 1 Whenever he lie captured a I ship chip he h brought It ti mn St fi Thomas Thoma ana an run ran It I Into the time emit 11 to It I Then rhon from the fort tort h he t d up the valuables After Mtr r that the ship woula lif ie b taken th the harbor and nd After Aft r the death doth the place wait vas abandoned 0 14 the tho hurricane and of or the tropics got KOI In theli work and an little Ut now remains except the thu great the rave cae and a few tew rumbling J blocks of ot stone lone Th lore lof of ot Si 1 Thomas contains roan i In ny legends of oC the pie carne oa II tle and among thesis them tl II is ft n variation en of the story tor of ot the murder of oC the th wives to tho time bland 1 story Ilor the tho pirate had only throe three wives wIres 1 and they li were 11 In each cn case beautiful women captured on ships he hu hail pirated All 1 of the tho wince 1 were erl mustered murdered ns as a became idlest flod with lh thorn thom nn and l they are Ir supposed lu Ie to have MO been burled buried In some Ime cavern ot of the fortress At any an rate the th island Inland Inlander er en ff have a I superstitious dread of ot the tho place and It II I seldom e York ork Times r 11 |