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Show Was Friend of Capt. Kldd. Capt. Tl.omns Palm of Newport, founder of Trinity church? whore fash, tonnblo wed 'bigs are celebrated In tho tweutU-fi. entiir, was one of tho notorious characters of the seventeenth seven-teenth century. IIo was a friend and some time n partner of William Kldd. He retired from tho exciting llfo to a quiet nbodo on Conanlcut Island In Narragnnsc ba, where a messenger messen-ger from Kltla found him when Kldd lay 11 prisoner in Iloston. To Palue's credit ao r "1 Kldd seven bars of gold with which to bribe his Jailors, In spltu of which Kldd swung by tho neck In London. |