Show I 1 ELNO LEI SOTT SCOTT WATSON Q 1936 newspaper union captain augur APT JOHN AUGUR was a CAPT C pirate there was no doubt of that in the minds of any of the good food folk who flocked to see his execution in the town of providence in the balincia Ba linnia islands they had bad seen been other freebooters ascend the gallows billows steps and there make confession ol of repentance for their sins but bot not so BO with captain augur ne ile died as ile he had lived a 11 wicked and perverse person find and ills his last words were words of defiance captain augurs early history li in shrouded in mystery but he flourished lour some time in the early eia eighteenth collary con celi lary tury tor for in 1713 we find him accepting a royal pardon tor for ills his misdeeds and impressing gov woodes rogers of the bahamas so favorably that the governor placed him in command of a sloop with a commission to trade aming the islands lie ile might have proved worthy of the trust had not temptation fallen in his way one morning he sighted two stoops sloops whose cargo promised rich booty and the captain forgot all ills his good intentions to go straight A shot across their bows stopped the merchantmen merchantman merchant men and when a little later they proceeded on their way they were lighter by some goals pounds sterling in money and goods then captain augur set sail for Hi there to join the other brethren of the coast but a sudden hurricane drove his ship back to the bahamas and wrecked it on a little wooded island in the meantime the governor had bad learned how bow his trust had been betrayed betray d and sent out an armed sloop to hu hunt for the pirate band having discovered disc them on the island the captain of the sloop by fair promises lured eleven of the marooned pirates to come aboard then he took them back to providence where governor rogers with fine irony convened a court of lately converted pirates to try them the result was a foregone fore one conclusion the judicial pirates were only too anxious to demonstrate their re establishment in the ranks of the respectable spec table so they quickly sentenced the eleven to be hanged on the gallows platform the condemned men 1 reproached their turncoat turn coat brethren tor for allowing their old comrades to be hanged and urged them to come to their rescue their only reply was that it was their business to turn their minds to another world and sincerely repent their wickedness in this such cant irritated captain augur the hard boiled yes he roared 1 I do repent heartily I 1 repent I 1 have not done more mischief and that we did not cut the throats of them that took us and I 1 am extremely e sorry that you all arent hanged as well as we the rope cut short such sinful philosophy |