Show BONES OF A PIRATE believed to have been unearthed on an island new york april 11 the benoe of captain hacks a notorious pirate are to have been unearthed on bedaloe island while digging for a foundation for several new buildings a laborer chiew up in a of baith a brittle object that resembled a human thigh bone an almost pei feet skeleton finally was collected from tho position of tho eleton it could be seen that the arms and legs were pinned clohe together at tb time of tho burial which led to ehg suggestion that tho skeleton of tho pirate captain had been unearthed when one of the laborera turned up a deml section of a wooden gibbet it became almost certain that the bones those of the pirate captain hicka with hie fleet cruised about the coast cn sometimes as far north as the end of long island pi eying on new york shippers ho was finally captured brought to new york convicted aej sentenced to be hanga on bedaloe island the execution was public and tho island was crowded at the time |