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Show (f THE SALT LAKE THiniTXE. SUNDAY MOANING,- JTJLY S. 1H23. - Hoax as a II Q New Evidence Unearthed by a Society Woman To Prove This "Buccaneer' Was a Cultured 7 STORIED BUGABOO. This U the Conception of Captain Kidd Which for Two Hundred Years Has Frightened , Children ana Ha Boon Blandly Accepted by ,... Gentle Cit izen 53 Adult. ) Ml 1 7 author of tha following article ii prominent New York society woman, well known for her investigation of subjects and attacks on , ungrounded popular beliefs. Miss Worden now throws the searchlight of evidence and common sense on the career of a man more blackly and falsely accused than perhaps anyone else in history. She went back to original documents and records of two hundred years ago in her exoneration of Kidd. THE . The Charming Residence Occupied by Captain Kidd aad Hit Beautiful Wife and Daughter in New York. id it' ill aril tit' NO PIRATE'S DEN.' if -- 7- 13 - By WILBERTINE T. WORDEN. COARSE and murderous buccaneer, a conscienceless thief stalking crimson decks with blasphemies on his lips and ready cutlass at his side; a treacherous blackguard whoee only thirsts were for blood and rum and gold. A A Striking Old Print Depicting the End of An Innocent Martyr, Declare. Wilbertine Captain Kidd, Worden, to the Csum of Ridding the Seas of Pirate. atory book and of popular fancy;-- BUT A gallant gentleman predisposed to literature and the quiet world of a lovely wife, and children, a peaceable officer returned honorably from the wars, who was drafted unwillingly into an expedition cgnimt the pirates menacing English trade This unfortunate friendship was the beginning of Kidd's downfall. For Livingston had deeper and more ' sinsternfSthafl. merely :aecurifiar''i' tov- - -' ernmentai post. He knew of the piratical wealth flowing into New York at the time and coveted it. He met carousing buc caneers squandering kings' ransoms, and saw no reason why some of this wealth should not line his own pockets. He knew, too, that the Great Mogul of India was harassing Parliament with complaints against the English pirates who looted his ships. 'So he asked to be made Secretary of Indian Affairs and promised to rid the seas of pirates if he was given the post Lord Bellomont, a powerful man close to the King, became sincerely interested In Livingston's plan. He, too, had an estate in America and had been shocked by who the depredations of the preyed upon shipping. , "I know a man," Livingston confided to Bellomont and the King, "who euld overcome the pirate menace. He is a skilled navigator, a brave fighter and a man familiar with the haunts of pirates." Captain Kidd was that man. The King eagerly assented to any plan which might stop the embarrassing pro- tests from foreign powers which were coming to his ears with increasing frequency and vehemence Kidd himself was amazed and indignant As as soon PfEl1" blfSf the T ly, to the scheme, Bellomont drew up articles of agree ment among himself, Kidd and. Livingston. England and France were at war, and it was agreed that all prizes taken from the French should be disposed of according to the laws governing such occasions. However, ships and cargoes wrested frMi pirates were to be divided on a basis of twenty-fiv- e per cent to Kidd's crew and .seventy-fiv- e per cent to the three signers. Ten per cent of their share was to go to King William the Third. The '"Adventure Galley," a trim and fast fighting ship, was procured at the expense of the Crown and placed under Kidd's command. He was handed two commissions. One of these empowered him to act against the French, and the other empowered him to and capture all Pirates. of what nation soever . . . bring them to legal Tryal . . . seize all and whatsoever Goods, Ships, Merchan dizes and Treasure and Other Thintrs Whatsoever With this blanket 00' THE permission from, the r.v Crown, Kidd sailed 4 abrosi . .Mr her away on his virtuous I1D an! big bit,rJ mission, which was inrlcaa ef socle" 0SX ln tended to rid the seas asa1DS . ereat . of pirates and at the x" ost . aney ot. .. same time prove highly copied person. profitable to the men engaged in it The "Adventure Gal'81 Suit ley" cruised first . ,ot.ii. Uamong the West Indies. Yet not a single Fred.r or a tl4th.t did the "Adventure Galley" meet. set Kidd, therefore, sail for the Indian Ocean and Madagascar, the notorious B' cut-throa- ts :' !V 5:..' M (y V':- - 7 Free-boote- D fc'en kiM f , ..." " -V - - V 11 ' - a.- "PIRATE'S" DEFENDER. Wilbertine T. Worden, Society Woman and Invettigator of Odd Subject. Who Here Write the True Story the Captain Kidd. few month s and d e s t i n y brought her WilWell-Know- n Myth-Drape- onthe American t.o be coast v martyed in the caufe. There you have the Captain Kidd of fact. The amazing storv of how a and prosperous holder and owner cf was entrapped in the me?h i circumstances, to slip finally into a rapid chute of disaster and ignominious death, is as absorbing as fiction. It is to more in!ere?'inr than ffte V 7s 5 1 r 1 tv artist, 6t free-boot- . ve .Un .r i0 er sea-rov- er pirate nest Unfor- - two-thir- d loot Their courtship methods, soon still the young and charming widow. They, were married, and the record of the reremonv won a 4 v ts v J !'' Howard Pyle f imoui Painting of Captain Kidd in Hia Accepted Role of Buccaneer. Standing Murderoua Guard Over a Box of Hn My thicaL Treaaure. ' "fell" violently for 'he r; chest and most She was wi.iow in New York. Sarah Cox. whose rich and prominent husband. William Cox. had been drowned a 1 or two before she met Kidd. jf ar In the meantime 'she was too beautiful and r.ch to remain lonn ling'e. and had mirnd again, t.s time a wealthy merchant named Oo'rts. He, too, died in a FIRST HINT. Clippings from an Article Published Four Year Ago Hinting at the Truth About What Became of Kidd's Treasure, and WMrk llrarad woruea in 'tnr marriage lists of the wiieerxine . in the Luckless time. For four happy and prosperous years Captain's Career. William Kidd lived on the- - palatial estate in New York near what is now East Seventy-fourth Street. A daughter was born when he heard of the to them, their fortunes prospered in ships proposed expedition. and land. Altogether Kidd's cup of harpi-ne- s Bellomont, though, as was was insistent was very nearly full. New There lived in York at that time a Livingston. Preasura man named Robert Livingston, master of was brought to bear a huge estate of 160,000 acres reaching as only men of huge to Massachusetts. Anxious for political power could bring it power, he obtained Kidd's backing and the At last Kidd found Captain crossed in one of his own boats to himself in a position engineer his friend's appointment as Sec- where he must accept or face ruin. retary of Indian Affairs. Ort . , i . unsea-worth- was short. Captain Kidd, with his impetuous 1 "Captain Kidd, the pirate.'' In the early Spring of 1601 a brigantine 'ay at anchor in Now hartvor. She was tb Antigua, snd her owner and master vas a man who inscribed himself in the city r"rrf a "Captain Wiibam Kidd. ger.tlen-.ai.From the firt. the youne eaDfal, wa a An man apparontly fa' by t" gods. n-i- r and hTro an officer in the King's h'- was adassociate of P.oya! mitted at once to the loftiest socia'. circles of the New World This dashing your.g roer bcarr eye. quickly the cynosur of And love quickly found his heart. He GoVf-T.or- T- -" i - P" liam Kidd. g Td V , ....ous P,certiy A5tor appearance. Capfein Kidd was' now nine months from hdme, and his crew, which had enlisted to the tune of dazzling' promised spoil, was on the verge of mutiny. At last, from a wrecked French ship, Kidd got a few pieces of gold with which to buy provisions now alarmingly low. This was not, of course, very laudable, but the "Adventure Galley" was in desperate straits and Kidd's commission permitted him to take over a Frenchman wherever found.' One or two negligible captures followed, and then Kidd's expedition took its first real prize. This was a Dutch ship, the "Quedah Merchant" KJdd refused to attack the ship when it wa!s sighted, because it was neither a freebooter nor a Frenchman. His crew, by this timei however, was entirely out of hand. In open mutiny they told their captain he would be mur- dered unless he boarded the ship. There was little resistance, and the "Quedah Merchant" was taken over as Kidd's ship, y their own leaking and by this time bark being abandoned. Out of this capture he lifted more than half a million dollars in gold, jewels, plate, silk and other precious merchandise. Yet as soon as they put into the harbor of of his crew deMadagascar of the serted, taking with them four-flft- ra Sea-rove- rs .,. T tunately the 'pirates had somehow got wind of his coming, end none put in an (Tltals B.CM .i ' - !?ifiJ,:-A M carta. tsei n "IW aWea M ketel T.sjatwi" j V? p V vow ir Ood 1 T i',-- - V f 4 CAPTAIN aV- -t bow. r myirtf pr)fT wrhrW-would- . KIDD BURIES THE BIBLR Ent'ttb haQ4 irhtrli nfsdltt th mtKlMBaIlgmd Cp'3in irh this WICKXD Th as W , k I M ur'ff M '' "TERRIBLE MAN." An Old Print'Whicb Purports to Shew Kidd Burying thi Bible, and Which "Proes How Blackly He Was Painted in His Time. , Kidd's only concern now was to get home and out of the whole disillusioning affair. In America Kidd found that sentiment against him was at fever heat Bellomont, whom he managed to see, regarded him with cold suspicion and raised no hand to help him when he was clapped into irons on a charge of piracy and murder. His wife was prostrated with grief. During the year that he was imprisoned in Boston, before his removal to England for trial, she wrote him many pathetic letters. He was not allowed to testify in his own behalf, was forbidden to produce tie " 'have' cleaied"'' Tmaryfm! him of the charge seizure and, of course, none' of the crew of villains who had sailed with him came to his defense. On May 23, 1701, Captain Kidd waa hanged in company with "three other The record of the execution contains a sardonic mention of the fact that "the halter . . . broke, but he waa tied up again. Thus, in a sorry episode of breaking ropes and the taunts or spectators, the career of Captain William Kidd ended. He. ladies and gentleman, was the "strutting fiend" you've read about, ." ..." ii' |