The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1844-08-30

out III d sHoIt ttne, anu being OOid, un-
prlncpled intriguer, he was perpetually
engaged in difficulties. of one kind or an
other, until, shortly before he came Ia the
United States, an intrigue with the wife of
one of the wealthy citizens Of Kingston
then made that place too hot for him, and
he sold out his property and came TO the
United States, and landed at New Or
leans, and from thence to Louisville, Ken
lucky, where, or IN the section, he pur-
chased some property, and finally located
himself on the celebrated island in the
Ohm river, near Marietta.
This move took place about the year
1903 or 4.-When he reached New Or
leans he assumed the name Of Banner
hassct. The beautiful and accomplish.
ed lady who accompanied and lived with
him was not his wife. She was young,
and had many fascinating accomplish
ments, which made her more worthy Of
! Blannerhasset than he was Of her. Col.
Burr saw Blannerhasset early in the year
1905, and instead of Burr's seducing him,
there can be no doubt that Burr received
from him such an account of Mexico, It's
wealth and disposition for revolution, as
seduced him INFO the project of invading
it, and the question as TO who should be
the great man, was one reserved by Lewis
Carr Blannerhasset until future events
should devolve themselves: as Carr al
ways declared to his friends that he in
tended Col. Burr as the military leader
who was to advance him to the supreme
command in Mexico.
The movements of Col. Burr and Blan-
nerhasset in the United States during the
years 1905 e. ., are already known, and
of course need not be detailed in this
statement.
After their projected invasion of Mexi-
co had failed, and Blannerhasset had bro
ken up at this island, he returned TO New
Orleans, where he left the lady who had
been his companion, and embarked for the
Island of New Providence, one of the
Bahamas, in the Yves. Indies, and settled
at Nassau, its capital, and recommended
the practice Of law. In short time he
obtained lucrative practice, and married
a lady of one of the most respectable ia
miles in that place, and was soon after
disturbed by visit from his Blannerhas-
set Island companion, who gave him
much trouble before he could get her TO
retire in peace, which she did, and soon
after returned to the United States, and is
now believed TO be resident of the south
ern states. When settled in Nassau, he
resumed his true name of Lewis Crrr, and
soon acquired handsome living; but his
restless spirit and intriguing disposition
kept him constantly involved in difficult.
les, and his treatment of his wife was cru
ell in the extreme yet by taking sides
with the government, he was elected to |
the assembly of the Bahamas, and was
chosen its speaker about 1929. This was !
his last elevation to notice by his treat |
ment to his wife, aid his continual de- |
baucheries and seductions, rs no money
which he command ever stopped his pro-
gress, during the year 1881 and '32 he
became so embarrassed that he was
obliged to leave the island, and once
more returned to Kingston in Jamaica,
from which place, in 1893, he once more
came to the United States, and landed al
Philadelphia, under his true name, Lewis |
Carr. 1t is believed that he, for the las
time visited Col Burr and soon after was
taken sick and died in obscurty in the
city of Philadelphia. At least, this is the
belief Of his wife and his friends at Mas
sau.
Thus ended the life of this bold and
restless spirit, which, from his entrance
on public life until his death, was one
continual scene of adventures. The
years he lived at Nassau were filed IN
with intrigue of a personal character, but
from the time he left the United States
in 1907 until 1888, he never resided in
any other place than the island of Provi-
dence.
Our informant was the Vice Consul of
the United States who lived on one of the
Sallkey Bahama Islands, who read law
with Blannerhasset, and was afterwards
his partner for nearly twenty years,
where he passed under his true name of
Lewis Carr, and often told him this story
of his life and connection with Col. Burr
so that the writer of this article, who
was in Kingston, Jamaica, and at Saltkey
Island last summer, one week, has no
doubt Of the foregoing narrative. The
facts and circumstances of his connection
with Col. Burr were fully detailed, so
that there was no room TO doubt that Mr..
BIannerhasse, was really and truly Lewis
Carr. lie is not now in France neither