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PIRATE TREASURE!
THEY hanged Captain William Kidd for piracy
and murder in 1701. And a mystery began Did Captain Kidd leave a buried
hoard? asks HENRY LEWIS
which still excites adventurers today: Did he leave buried somewhere a fortune in gold and silver and jewels?
Let's look at the story. It was Governor of New York and began in 1696 when Kidd, a Scot New England. of about 50, sailed from Ply- "mouth to New York in the Adventure Galley, a ship of 287 tons.
We know that for the first year or so he had little success.
But then working his way down India's Malabar Coast, the south-western shore of the continent, he came upon the Quedagh Merchant,
He. sailed with a commission from King William III to wage war on pirates and to take. any French shipping. He was to seize their booty for a syndicate
She was about 10 miles off of titled men who had put up Cochin, a Moorish ship of 500 the money to equip his ship, tons and 10 guns. When she They were headed by the Earl of saw the Adventure - Galley Bellomont, an Irish peer who coming up on her she clapped
KIRK DOUGLAS
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Reel Corner
KATE O'REILLY.
LIZABETH TAYLOR
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plays the most daring, 'LIZ IN BIG
down-to-earth and drama- tically powerful role of her career in "Butterfield 8,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film version of the widely-read novel by John O'Hara.
won
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and Eddie Fisher, with Dina Merrill' co-starred,
#Butterfield 8" tells the story of Gloria (Miss Taylor), whose traumatic experience as a child has left a permanent scar.
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Although Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher tried to keep it quiet friends know that their appearance together in "Butter- field 8," proved a big thrill for both of them.
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During their ärst scene gether, Miss Taylor forgot her lines the first time she has done so before the camera in her eighteen-year acting career. She later admitted that acting opposite her husband got her "kind of excited."
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New Yorkers who were lucky enough to watch Elizabeth Taylor shooting scenes in the
Also starred In the topfight big city for "Butterfield 8" were cast are Laurence Harvey, who treated to a veritable fashion 20 Academy Awari show of gowns scheduled to go nomination for his brilliant on the market in late 1960 and work in "Room At the Top," early '61.
re- Many fortune-decă
on all sail but it was no use. York. There be was Kidd overhauled her with no united with his wife. trouble at all
dng on the coast of America' At Gardiner's Island ia New Jersey and on the shores He fired a shot across her the Sound he anchored and of Long Island Sound bow and ordered her to heave went ashore to bury: to...
bales of goods and a heavy People who have sold their light-
Then Kidd found to his de- chest. Then he went en to homes. there have insisted on that the Quedagh Boston to report to Lord keeping the rights to any trea- Merchant was a treasure ship. Bellomont, but was arrested sure, in the belief that a chest This ship alone would repay and taken to London for trial of plunder may be found below the cost of his expedition and It took a jury half an hour the property. on top make him rich.
to find him guilty of piracy and
And so he put her passengers murder. (The murder charge and crew in their boats and concerned a gummer 的 the
Modern pirates
the
told them to row for their lives. Adventure Galley whom Kidd He put a prize crew on board had struck across the head with a grey-haired woman who
Down in Eastbourne Lives her and the two ships, Adven- a bucket. Kidd claimed he hit sists that all the ture Galley and Quedagh Mer- the men because he was incit- have to far sought chant salled together south to ing the crew to mutiny). the island of Madagascar,
Kidd was executed at Wap- Dick, inherited a
wrong places. Mrs ping, on the Thames.
A few days later, Lord pirate relics from a collector and it includes what she claims men dug up
is Capt Kidd's own map, sho
Poorly built
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Bellomont's
the Adventure Galley £14,000 worth of gold and was a poorly built ship and was silver from the place on Gar- ing where he hid the tre leaking badly, so in Madagascar diner's Island where Kidd had it was found, she says, Kidd switched to the Quedagh hidden it. He is believed to Kidd's workbox arti Merchant, Some of his mea, hoard..
have told his jailers about this have confirmed that the
and paper are of the right to have been written by tain Kidd
mutinous under his command, transferred to the pirate ship Resolution under Captain Culli- ford, which was also at the island. Others went ashore to live like kings on their share of the plunder.
£100,000 offer
Where does the map - show But did be leave a much the treasure to be hidden? Mrs bigger cache somewhere? While Dick won't tell strangers but he was in prison he wrote to she has told me that it is on Lord Bellomont suggesting that
Kidd set off for his home he might be taken to Hispaniola 50 uninhabited Chinese island. New York. He sailed west where be could "bring off An expedition to get it woul round the Cape of Good Hope, three-score thousand
8:33, need a mining pounds she through the West Indies and which would otherwise be lost." engineer and a gumboạt. dropped anchor in the Leeward A little later he wrote to the keep off 20th pinkry Chinese Islands where the news reached Speaker of the House of Com- pirates who abound' in the him that he had been declared a mons raising the offer to waters of the East. pirate and a whole feet was £100,000. looking for him. It was now April, 1699.
If you argue that evidence Obviously Lord Bellomont seems to be lacking that Kidd and the Speaker did not believe ever visited the China
in this treasure.
He moved on to Hispaniola But there have been hun- there are other theories that (now the Dominican Republic) dreds since who have believed seem sound.
One is that the treastira was and left the Quedagh Merchant it exists-even if not in His- there with some of his crew in peniala.
buried in the West Indies the Huguey River while he A Texas ollman used modern the mên Kidd left behind bought a sloop, the St. Anthony, excavating methods а few the Quedagh Merchant wb and sailed on to Long Island years ago to dig for it on Nova he left her in Hispan Sound, the passageway to New Scotia's Oak Island.
Huguey River.
MY DREAM OF TRUTH?
ONCE
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NCE I had a dream in which I dreamt that my doctor sat beside my bed assuring me of the wonderful efficacy of the injection he had given me. For a couple of minutes he seemed unaware of what had happened. Then suddenly he became transferred it to his own tin child over my body. He re- alarmed, felt my pulse and box.
called how dear I. was to hiĩm heart, and hurriedly made his A knock sounded at the door and how I loved him. exit with all his bag and bag- and my dearest friend rushed denly, be recalled something. gage.
in. He was a picture of sorrow He searched my desk, ⠀ and dejection. He sat for a sacked my a'm'rah, turned the moment
besides my head cupboard upside down. rather, my former head--and · He looked terribly die then went near my feet and appointed. He shouted at my touched them. It was a heart- friend and.... cook; “Where are my breaking gesture.
the papers? The Jasurance He called the cook and told papers, the cheque book, the him that as he was my best wil, if my?” The cook and friend, he would like to keep my friend truthfully replied Presently, I saw my cook en- some of my things for a res that they had not touched ter the room. He was flabber- membrance. With a sigh he scrap of paper.
I had ceased to be. I
was dead. It was a terrible realisa-
tion.
I recalled my uncle, friend, my cook who had been so good and kind to all my life.
all
me
gasted. He didn't know what ordered him to get a car and “Desk, the best” muttered my to do. He tore his hair and transfer the drawing.. room uncle under his breath, “I had beat his chest.
furniture to his place,
a feeling that the rascal woxid
He opened my cupboard and took out my dinner suit, which who had meant so much to me be had always coveted, and
Then came my dear uncle die a 'pauper."
in my life. He went like a -Credit card to A. H. Ahmeil
"GANNET"
-Credit Card to Edmund, C.-K. Chane
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