The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-02-16
The Tables Turned
An Awful Revenge Turned
On The Revenser
BY WILLIAM C. EMERSON
Copyright. 1910, by American Press
Association

1t was In bnccaneering times in the
West Indies An English ship, the
Penguin. was sailing between Vera
f,ruz and Puerto Cabello. in Honduras,
when she was attacked by pirates.
Captain Hazeltine of the Penguin. nav
ing four swivel guns on board. two
port and two starboard, or larboafd
and starboard, as the terms then were,
with plenty Of muskets and cutiasses,
gave the pirates fight that cost them
one-third of their number In killed ana
wounded. mostly killed. But the pl-
rates were too strong for the mer-
chantmen. who were at length over
powered.
The captors were so irritated at the
fight they had been put to and their
loss that they resolved to inflict tor
ture upon Captain Hazeltine. to whom
they were indebted for both, as they
we'll knew. for it was he who had led
every movement against them. They
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Penguin to walk the plank except
Hazeltine, whom they put in irons
down In the hold. Then the pirate
commander invited suggestions as to
methods of execution that would give
the most suffering.
Many Of the plans that were handed
In were impracticable. since the p1-
rates did not possess the means OF car
rying them out. One struck the cap
tain's fancy as soon as 1t was pro-
posed. 1t was that they should bury
their victim up to his chin in the sand
at receding half tide, so that on its re-
turn it would gradually drown him.
Death would thus confront him for
hours and would linger when 1t came.
1t seemed to the pirate that this men
tai strain on man in sound bodily
health would be far worse than phys
ical pain. He ordered his craft headed
for the shore and anchored near a
beach. On arrival the boats were low
cred and filed with eatables and cases
of wine that had been taken from the
Penguin, for the pirates had deter
mined to have spree on shore, where
they could have plenty Of room to
stretch their legs. However, their
numbers were so reduced by the fight
they had been through that one boat
sufficed, and, since two men were left
to guard the ship. but five men, inclnd-
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victim.
They found the tide within an hour
Of the ebb Burying Hazeltine on the
verge, he would see the tide recede for
an hour, then return for an hour. The
pirates faced him toward the water,
leaving only his head exposed. His
arms were placed close to his tanks,
and when his executiopers had stamped
on the sand about him he felt himself
in vise Eaving finished their work,
they carried their supplies little far
ther up on the beach and began to eat.
drink and be merry.
Hazeltine soon discovered that no
more frightful death could be devised.
He watched the tide recede, pause and
begin it's return. By this time the
pirates were very drunk, screaming
and fighting like madmen. Hazeltine
hoped some one of them, Infatuated
by liquor, would come and cleave his
skull with a cutlass. But he was dis
appointed.
And now the first wave reached the
victims chin. The next did not come
so high, nor the next, but the fourth
washed his jaws. When it receded 1t
took an inch Of sand from under his
chin. The next wave took more, and
successive waves left his throat bare.
But while the sand was sucked away
in front it was piled up at the back of
his head
BY this time the yells Of the pirates
were few and soon ceased altogether
They had intended to watch their pris.
oner die, but had got drunk instead.
The waves; = dashing over Hazeltine
while he held his breath, kept suck
ing sand from his front. Finally he
could work his body backward and for
ward. The water poured in around him
and softened the sand. By an effort he