Show ELNO 1126 western unions walk the plank P AROUND the profession of there have grown up miny a end many a tradition which h more foundation in fiction than in one of these la the belief thain pirate leader invariably made his alms walk the plank As a n of fact this practice was coina timely rare among the pirates of 5 we have any authentic record and far as Is known the only one ahoi dually did it was capt john berdn or jack of the baltic a da pirate of copenhagen Der drake began as a carpenter i the lings dockyard in Co penha from which he was dismissed drunkenness he made a few voya to london as a ship s carpenter i then upon falling heir to 10 r dollars he built a fast brig shea I 1 alth copper in which he carried lc her between norway and englad but the profits were small and eil jack offered his sen ices and ship peter the great of russia they we accepted and he became master sh wryght in the royal dockyard at one day in a fit of anger he li one of his superiors with an ax immediately fled aboard his ship called for london to escape the of peter the great in london he armed his vesseL ws 12 guns and sailed for norway t the way he was attacked by a RUSH man of w ar but defeated it and toj possession by this time he had ite decided upon a career of pih so he gave his new vessel tie an inspiring name of sudden death let out to plunder the russian i british shipping ills prizes vc many and he found a ready maratt sweden where the rule was no alons asked and cash on delater del lTer make sure that his trail would hard to follow adopted practice of drowning all prisoner li making them walk the plank a long time he was successful in vav ing his captures without much tn ble afterwards then one day he attacked a si ish vessel whose captain and areiti in a long boat and hasten cS spread the neals the governor e petersburg offered a reward 04 rix dollars for baltic anck s head soon afterwards Der drake a russian ship upon which the erners sister was a passenger A reproaching her for her brotha i ings the elrite leider cruelle stal her to death to the back dut I 1 was too much for one ot his sac this pirate shammed sickness i was put ashore by the captain immediately went to st and bet raved the hiding place 01 pirates two ships were to capture them and although t drake himself escaped at the ahm whole chew TV as captured andi and I up on hooks alive to die I 1 burteen years later Derd rahe seen in stockholm by the captain the swedish ship who had once from him the pirate was rested tried and hanged doctor dovers busy life PIRATES life was of necess A one filled with action bal Is t doubtful if any of the brear of the coast ever had a more vs tareco than dr dover was educated at calus college C bridge england where he toot degree of bachelor of which he practiced his profess lo bristol then la 1708 botne ous streak in ills character nsf itself and he salted from capt A codes rogers in two a aho duke and alie duchess op d H leering cruise in seas although doctor dover knew y ng of he insisted ing placed in command of oneo ships and apparently made 6 the nen job from th start after they hid rounded cape E observed a on the islai guari bernandez and dover y ashore the next morning the discovered the lone inhabitant island alexander selkirk abe inal of robinson cruese soon afterwards rogers and D overhauled a spanish ship session of her and the bachelor doer was put tt mand and in april 1709 he he acty of guayaquil Gu ayaquil some ota cre fell victims to the plague f S bleeding bleeping Ble in a church where bodies biad recently been burled i doctor commander took heroic ures he bled each sick man S ing off ounces of blood doers next prize ans the rich acapulco from which he abt loot at more than a pounds sterling then he san around the world and return di bristol in october 1711 where I 1 ceded to give up piracy and cretu his old profession he became 01 the noted physicians in and wrote a book which ran ingot editions incidentally in thas boob recommended arge doses of 9 allver for every conceivable nina this book won him the the doctor it Is doubtful it any other pt leader has so many claims to i t as this quicksilver doctor wh remembered because he was a suf V in two professions invented DC lr powders rescued alexander sa s1 ugh and wrote an extraordinary pl it the ancient leac als country |