Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-03-29

when the articles were taken, nor
had any vessel been seen to approach
near the coast. The smith feared
he had done sin, and thus confess
ed it to his minister.
In the following year the mys-
ferrous schooner came again; but
this time she cast no anchor, but
hove to, discharged boat contain
ing four men with considerable
baggage, and bore away at once to
sea. The boat assembled the river,
and not long after it was ascertained
by the people that they had neigh
bors of whom they knew not before.
The four men had selected one of
most secluded and romantic spots
in the woods of Saugus for their
abode. The place of their retreat
was deep, narrow valley, shut in
on two sides by high hills and crag-
gy, precipitous rocks, and shrouded
on the other side by thick pines,
hemlocks and cedars, between which
there was only one spot to which
the rays of the sun at MONDAY
could penetrate. On climbing up
the rude and almost perpendicular
steps of the rock on the eastern
side, the eye could command a full
view of the bay on the south, and
prospect of "a large portion of the
surrounding country. The place
of their resort was ever after called
the Pirates Glen, and they could
not have selected a spot on the
coast for many miles, more favora-
bic for the purpose both of conceal
ment and observation. Even to
this day, so lonely is the place, that
not one in a hundred of the inhab-
itants of the town have ever de-
scended into its silent and gloomy
recesses. Here the pirates built a
small hut, made a garden, and dug
a well, the appearance of which is
still visible.
In later years it is supposed they
buried money in the glen, and many
have sought in vain to find the hid
den treasure. BY some means, the
retreat of these men became known
in England, and a cruiser soon
made her appearance on the coast.
The pirates were traced to their
glen, and a detachment of seamen
them at midnight, and
they were secured and carried to
where they were tried
and executed. But one of their
number had escaped to a rock about
two miles to the north of the glen,
in which was a spacious cave
This man, name was Thomas Neal.
The cavern where he had concealed
himself had been used by the pirates
to store the booty in that they had
brought to the spot with them, and
here, not in the glen, should treas
nres be sought for, if anywhere.
Here the fugitive established his
residence, and, to pass the time
more pleasantly, he practiced the
trade of shoemaker. In Boston
he found female of as abandoned
a character as his own, and he in
iuced her to become his companion
at the cave. He was occasionally
seen in the village during the year
1858, where he came to purchase
necessary articles of subsistence,
for which he always paid in
golden coin. His female compan-
ion was never seen but once after
joining him at the rock, and on
this occasion she came into the vii
lage to obtain for him some article
Of medicine, which she purchased,
and then Immediately disappeared.
During the same year the great
earthquake occurred, which caused
such CONSERVATION and fear through
out the New England colonies.
From that day Thomas Neal did
not make his appearance in the
village, and at least half dozen
IF the boldest inhabitants deter
mined to seek the place of his re-
;reat, and ascertain what had be-
come of him. They easily found
he spot, but what was their sur
,rise to see the change. The strug-
gle of nature had divided the top
If the rock, and the great mass had
rushed itself down into the mouth
If the cave, enclosing the guilty