Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-30

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doSia Burr would certainly affect. The
woman, Nho slbstquehtIy became Mra;
Mann, asked her lover where ne obtained
the presents, and he replied that ne founG
them on vessel which he and other fish
ermen mad boarded.
These men were believed to be
bankers" rough class Of men. who
earn a livelihood by picking up all spe
eies OF flotsanr and jetsam along the
coast. 1t is said that they used to lure
ships upon the rocks for the sake o.
plunderlng them. by tying a string of
lanterns about a horses head at hight and
causing the animal to walk up And down
the beach. The sailors, seeing the bob
the shore, their craft would run aground
and opportunity for plundere was thus
easily presented ,NF
Continuing, however Miss Pool said:
Mrs. MaQn's lover reeited to her how
that morning. Just at dawn, he and his
companions had described "a small pilOI
boat driving straight toward Nays Head,
with rudder set and all sails drawing.
Not Il soul was visible on the craft and
after She struck the men boarded her.
Careful inspection revealed nothing as TO
her identity. Abandoned. sslie had headed
for Cape Hatteras in the height OF ter
ribie gale, One of the cabins had evil
IDENTIFY been recently occupied sysa WON
and The articles OF feTniIfi4le weafing APP
larat fhese the lovsr.sssa ppropliated as
presented them to his Sweetheart.
Miss Pool doubted my story-of the 2i-
rates at first, I reasoned with her for
some time, using The facts She had told
me to strengthen my case. 'BHt.' she
isaid, when pirates board vessel do they
not scuttle 1t, and set it afire?'j That
| may be true / replied, but there ARE
many ways one may Look al this matten
The ship may have been boarded by pir-
ates and hurriediy abandotsa- II en- en-
Der that ali this occurred in tie days of
the second war with England, and it us
| by no means impossible that ana English
or even an American man-o'war may
| have run across the track Of the little
vessel. and compelled the pirates to fec
| for their lives In the end | think | con-
| WINGED Miss Pool that my phase of the
question might be true.
"And that is about all there is to the
story. The supposed portrait of Theodo-
| STA Burr is now owned by DR.. Pool 3
daughter, who is Mrs. Overman of Eliz-
abeth City. The picture finally came into
| DIR. POOLS possession as a gift from Mrs.
! Mann, -&ho presented-it- to him. -bec:1dsc
he had lnsulled in her a real faith in the
power Of physicians to heal the sick.
| There is no doubt that Theodosia Burr
| set sail from Charleston for New York
1 TO meet her father, but whether she took
! with her a portrait as a gift is to a GER
| tain degree conjecture. In view of the
| extraordinary facts concerning this pie
| ture now owned by Mrs. Overfnan / am
| certain that she did. In view of the facts
| concerning the deathbed confession OF
/ the pirate, | am equally certain that size
| met her death at the hands of law
| less band of which ne was a member. In
view Of the possibilities offered by the
j pre- sence of warShips in the waters near
Cape Hatteras at that time, there is am
| pie reason to believe that the pirates
were frightened away before they had a
| chance to scuttle the Patriot, and that Il
| subsequently Gang ashore with those
things in the cabin which Mrs. Manh's
youthful lover found and presented ito
4 her. Htf .Ht tftft-es
ITO my mind everything dovetails in
! to a nicely, setting without questipa
| the manner in which fair Theodosia me-
her fate. She died at. the hands of law
less men near Cape Hatteras- times BE-
fore and since the grave of the fearless
and ga,Iant-wfth the wild foam OF the
| Atlantic for her win1ing-sheet and the
fierce northwind for her requiem.