Show DT 2 ELMO SCOTT WATSON Q 1931 western guzom union A certain pirate named hiram 0 you expect e a man with the prosale prosaic and sober name of allram to be a pirate bold 1 but capt hiram breaker Br eakes the son oon ot of a well to do dutch councillor of the island of saba in the west indies was not only illy a pirate but nebout as bloodthirsty and desperate a scoundrel ns as tile lie history of piracy records in tile the year 1704 described RR as a handsome well built youth of nineteen was placed in command of a ship plying between between saba and amsterdam in amsterdam lie fell lu in love with a mrs afro arid and although lie and his lady love conspired to murder tier her husband and succeeded in doing so they were acquitted of the crime at the trial then hiram decided to go a filtrating lie ile stole tits his employers ship and nd cargo rena renamed nied the vessel the adventure and set forth upon his 1119 career ills first birst exploit was to sall sail into vigo harbor in full view of the forts guarding it the acapulco just in from valparaiso und and make inake oft off with tier glicr the captain and crew were murdered and from the chilean ship tile pirate took small bars bara of got gold then breakers took over the acapulco for ills his own and sailed into tile the mediterranean at gibraltar he called upon the governor and for a consideration was granted a commission as a british privateer under tills this semiofficial license to plunder lie he preyed upon nil all shipping in the mediterranean british as well till aa any other A strange paradox this capt breaker for one historian records ads the lie fact that lie ho was one of tile the religious variety of pirate for after six days of rubbing robbing arid and throat slitting lie he would order tits ills crew to clean themselves on oil the sabbath Sabbat li and gather on oil the quarter deck there be would rend read prayers to them arid and would often preach a sermon after the lutheran styli style thus fortifying the bave b ave fellows for another week of toll ind iad bloodshed brookes readied reached the full fiall measure of tits his infamy while sailing near ill the balearic on the const coast of minorca lie saw a nunnery arid and pro joeed pcr ed to his men that they should each get a wife apiece they gladly agreed and the diabolical plan was carried out after tills this affair breaches Drca liea decided to retire from piracy ile he returned to amsterdam to claim mrs only to ind fand that she had been hanged for poisoning their little son with the career of its ills partner in crime ended captain breaker tell fell a victim to melancholy and finally in a ill fit of madness threw himself into a canal and was drowned ile he cheated tile gallows but as was the case with most of lila ills mail kind death was the final victor |