Show newspaper Newt paper union he was almost an ideal pirate I 1 N MANY rejects capt john I 1 was the idal pirate that la to eay some of the incidents in bis ca reer read like the story of a buccaneer in some blood and thunder piece of fiction and this a man born in the colony of massachusetts I 1 in 1703 john vv as one of the crew of the charier a ves eel which had been fitted out by some of the leading citizens of doston to go on a private ering cruise in canada nn waters after leaving marblehead the crew mutinies mutinied muti nied locked the captain in his cabin and chose for their commander then they threw the captain overboard and sailed south here the pirate of fiction first enters the for the flag which he hoisted was the old roger and in the middle of it was an anat in one hand omy with an hourglass and a dart in the heart with three drops of blood proceeding from it on the other off the coast of brazil they cap aured no less than alpe portuguese ships from which they took a great amount of valuable booty then had the indolence to sail back to marblehead divide the plunder among the crew who landed and quid ly prepared prep ired to return to their homes but word of their crimes had preceded them and an exciting man hunt was soon on a week captain and his mates had been captured and sent to boston in june 1701 1 be was sentenced to death and from an old pamphlet we read how alie time was spent between his trial and execution the minis of the town used more than erdl nary endeavors to instruct the prison ers and bring them to repentance there were sermons preached in their hearing every day and prayer dally made with them and they were catechised catechi sed and they had many occa exhortations and left that could be done for their good an june SO a strange procession bended wended its way through the streets of boston town at the bead marched a man carrying a silver oar the cm blem of a pirates execution behind him came a company of musketeers and in the midst of these walked a little group of wretched downcast men captain pirates the captain however was an exception with a great show of bravado he stepped to the edge of the platform after he had mounted the steps and with his hat in hand and bo vang to the left and right he harangued the spectators and ironically warned them against bringing bonev into bew england to be hanged for it so the career of the almost ideal pirate ended un repentant and audacious to the last the royal pirates revenge ton tar tamed monumental tolef record lh achievements of ati bray and andrla a subjugated power who plundered on tb wave IS a tar cry from piracy in IT east indies to a tower which stands on shooters hill woolwich corn mon in england but this tower of which the poet sings Is the connecting link in a thrilling pirate story after the famous pirate angora sul tan of timor had been dethroner dethroned by the I 1 and had retired to the Is land of ceylon his brother andrla took up the quarrel he proclaimed himself sultan of another island lit tie timor and having received from his brother a a fast boat with an armament of SS guns set forth to prey upon the british shipping flighty mites out from bombay the pi rate captured the and put ting the crew of 48 men into one small bojt left them under the blazing sun they set out for bombay but only half of them arrived there alive andrla decided that any other prize would do as well as an english ship and his next capture was two chinese junks filled with alces and other valuables he plundered both and ax an excess of cruelty ordered the crew bound back to back in pairs and thrown into the ocean one of the managed to get hand free end pulling out a concealed dagger stabbed andrla in th shoulder the punishment meted out to him was such as only a field could devise andrla ordered the skin cut off the man s hack and thin had him beaten with canes alien he was lashed to a i aft and thrown overboard for sun to finish the work strange to say the chinaman after three days was picked up by a fishing boat and carried to bombay where he lived to an old acce I or three years tue sultan pirate continued hla ravaged on the eastern seas and during that time it Is said that he murdered no less than surely a fulsome revenge or the wrongs either real or fancied suffered by hla brother then the british decided that it was time to put a stop to the activities of this ma commander jonea of II 11 M S sta a man of war carrying 64 guns was assigned the task the briton aid siege to capital city for 12 months and andrla a subjects despair ing of escape begged him to surrender he refused and one of a mob which had gathered before his palace shot him as he stood upon a balcony ha them jones was hailed s a hero upon hit return to england and after his death his widow built the tower on shooters Sho otera him to commemorate bl achievement |