The Evansville journal., 1868-01-30
THE PIRATES THUMB.
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uI.-HUNG IN CHAINS.


maica merchants, that three armed
schooners were fitted out to follow
him to the Terapin Key, the little
sand island which Monday had forti
fed. The resistance was desperate,
but two thirds of the pirates were
evantuafly shot down, and he and
four of bis officers were taken, and
sent to England for trial. | was
abroad at the time on business when
/ returned the trial was over, and
Monday.and his four comrades were
swinging in chains at Blackwell
Point. Mr.. Mulford wentto the trial.
and recognized our black foOtman,
now scared, ferocious and desperate,
but he was unable to obtain leave to
visit mafterwards in the condemned
cell. | saw from the papers, that the
villain fought desperately in the
press room as he was being pinioned,
and nearly strangled two of the turn
keys and the hangman' assistant.
IV.-THE CROSSING NEAR THE BANK.
It was about three years after the
trial that | aud Ned, Gust returned
from Jamaica) were walking down
Cheapside, full of talk ofSold friends
duO OIO l. was
to his infinite amusement. an old &C.
centric theory of mine about trans
migration,- diving" as Icalled it:
Men>eome up again, | sail, de-
pend upon it, Ned, same faces, same
characters, with fresh bodies, that's
all. I met Francis the First yester-
day, driving KensingtoR 'bus,-the
long big nose, small mouth, piggy
eyes; he was pompous, gallant, and
full of fight as ever. Mouse talking
to him about that Imprisonment in
Spain, but the same man.~Socrates.-
snub- nose. high cheeksbones, big
brow, lock of coarse honesty-keeps a
second hand book shop in Holborn.
I saw Henry the Elgh the other day
at butchers doorin Newgate Mar
ket. He's Mormon now, and has
written anti -papal pamphlets on Spir-
itual Wives. o, they come up again !;
they've only been hiding
Ned laughed, and said, Mad as
ever" =
Then We agreed to. call for Jones, a
man we knew in Eothbury, and go
and dine at Greenwich, at Trafalgar /;
and so we did.
We had the Dolphin room, and af-
ter dinner went outsoh the balcony 70
see the grand old river turn intezBur-
gundy inthe sunset; then, ,-as twilight
came on, the vessels and barges grew
more spectral, and steal by in ghostly
fashion. @
Perhaps, suggested Ned, as he
slipped his claret, those 4ves-
sells are bringing back some of your
divers. Suppose wesfound FL Negro
Capitano q cook on board a Margate
steamer? Be kind enough, old boy,
to touch that bell. They We got very
good weeds here, | m told.'t
balcony smoking, Ned, who was al
ways fullEpf fun and adventure, pro-
posed a Wild schemes ~
Suppose, Fred" be said, holding
his cigar up like aneorch, $ wewait
till the moon rise-1t rises early to-
night, andit is young one, it won t
give too much Highland then we
take a boat, pull to Blackwell Point,
and see that old friend of. ours, that
horrible rascal, Monday I want a
lock of his curly haiE as keepsake.
[ want to- look at the black article
under the miscrOscope. m
But suppose we we're seen by the
river patrol, there be prettysrow
1t would look very nice, Frederick
and Edward Gambler, City .Mer-
chants, respectfully dressed men.
charged with stealing a lock ofshair
from the pirates gallows Blackwell
| Point. Osit'll never do. @
Nonsense, Fred. pish. 4 thought
you'd more courage"
20, there's no danger" said Jones,
quiet sort of second fddlemaneRho
had been eating and drinking placid
lly. They'd only think we were Eek
amining them; or perhaps take us'for
sailors, imbibing the moral effects
that Townsend brags of as derived
from such CHASTITY exhibitions. Come
along, boysp z
We ordered coffee, took .'Gloria. -
paid our ball, and off we went. We
hired boat and pulled it ourselves,
singing a West Indian negro war
| chant as We darted rapidly, and with
steady stroke, to the quiet bend of
\ the river where the CHASTITY triple
| framework stood dark against sky
just flushed with the earliest dawn of
moonlight. THE last red glow of the
sunset cleaned behind the black
frame worksof the gibbet, wherefrem
dangled the five hideous, shriveffed
bundles. Acrow, late to roest, how
cred near, looking through Che wire
network. s =
:" By Jove. here they are, cried
Ned, driving the boats nose up into
the black slndge, from which stuck
out one or two dry and muddy reeds.
Ned and | laid down our oars and
leaped on shore, leaving Jones with
the boat.