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N CAPTAIN KIDD WAS NO PDtAlE SO UTEST PROOFS GO TO SHOW Treasure Hunters of a Century Looking for Loot That Wasn't There. OLD ROMANCE DIES AT LAST. . Condemned to death for piracy by » London court in 1701, Capt William Kidd of New York said to the judge in his peculiar Scotch accent: "It is s very hard sentence. I have been sworn against by perjured witneesea." Nobody paid much attentk>n to his chant people etepped on the deck of the Calley, the Eagliah flag was hoist- ed. .. . It was a fabulous prUe^ -the Great Mogul's treasure ship. Ingots of gold and bars of silver. Bags of golddust. Chests of coia. Boxes ofj diamonds, rubles, emeralds. Bales of| silk, damask, and such products of In- dia. The value can aevor be told, but , ^. ^ , . ,, , ,. an Inventory of the Uttovers which of the trophies would be split a mo r»? ^^^^pj^j^ ^^^^ managed to bring to among Kidd's crew. This was to be the only wages the seamen would re- ceive. The remaining three-fourths Bellomont, Somers, Bomney, Russel, Shrewsbury, LiviTigston and Kidd â€" tfarO larger sharc-s going to Livingston and Kidd. The King a Partner. That is what ti»e written agrree- .'Vmeriea assumes tbe sweeping din:en-| sions of a mabarajah's dream. | Turns Home. I Captain Kidd turned his helm and> elcod for home, but that was 12,000 ! miles away, and the Adventure Galley moot eiid, except for a secret clause .^^^j^ ^^^^^ j^^^^^ j^^ She was leaking! stipulating that tbe King was to re- ^^^ j^^jy ^^^â- ^ j^^ eight-man shUts at j ceiv« a 10 per cent cut of all shares. ^^^ pomps were changed every two If the booty ehould total £100,000, jj^,^^ Her hull was bound round with Kidd was to receive as a bonus the ^^^i^ j^,, ,g„ yj^ bottom would drop } wvrds. He was led down the worn ship he sailed in. If the venture were -^ . ^-jtii jjls two prise vesseis in: stone steps at Execution Dock, and j nnsticceaef ul, Bellomont was^^to be r^-^ jQ^jp^^y ^^^^ pm j^ ^^ gt_ Mary's according to the custom with pirates, banged on a gallows between the marks of high and low tides. Then ELECIKICAL PROSPECTING TO BE DONE BY BIG INTERESTS Government Approves of New ^'> ^^ ^^<^ **1!'"^Z..r*^ e • -r \* I 1 f I ^- of ore, offer hJ*h reetetanoe to ocientinc Method or Investi- his lx>dy was covered with tar, bound about wiith chajLna, and suspended from a gibbet farther down tlie Thames as a warning to seamen, an til the crows should pick tbe bones â- bare. For 200 years the name of Captain Kidd was a synonym for piracy and buried treasure, llten one day Ralph D. Paine, an American, rummaging In the dusty flies of the PobUe Record •Office in London, discovered two French passes which had belonged to Captain Kidd, and which, if inrodoe. ed in court at his trial, would have â- cleared him of the charge of i^racy. He had taken these passes from the two ships which he had captured In the Indian Ocean, and tbejr wne Ua •ptroof that tbe ships were sailing under an enemy's flag, and were legi- timate prey for « privateer. Who hid these papers when they meant Kfe or death to Kidd? What was the motive for doing this man to death on charge of which he was innocent? Had Private Mean*. Since Paine's discovery, books have been written to answer these ques- tions and to dear the name of Cap- tain Kidd. Only last year Robert W. Chambers covered the sabject in "The Man They Hanged." More recently tbe latest knowledge upon it has been summarized in an article by Marquis James in The American Legion Monthly under the title, "The Sailor Who Sailed Once Too Often." For William Kidd bad retired from the sea when be married Sarah Oort, the tichest widow in New York in 1691, knd his social stjtnding was indicated by tbe titl^ "Gent" after his nanse in the official record of his marriage. He was tbe son of a Scottish country parson, bad been well educated for a country boy, and bad many friends antong the high officials both of col- onial New York and of England under King William III. Mr. James says further: William Kidd laid by his pay, and his share of prizes and awards, and tevested in New York real estate. While he was courting Sarah Oort the New York Legislature voted him S150 for chasing pirates from the local waters. When he married Sarah, fae «eemed fixed for life financially. So at thirty-seven tbe thrifty Scotch An air attack on tbe cotton pests of tbe Soudan is the plan of Sir Sefton gating Northern Areas. PLANS ALREADY MADE Electrical, or "geophystcal" methods of searching out ore bodies ae scientl- flc aids to mining are to be put to the tetit thia year by tbe Ontaa*) Govern-^ m'OuL - I With the approval of the Mhilstry. ; the HolUnger Coosolidated Gold Mines Company wUi comiuct an el«ctrcal sur- ' I vey of the whole Kamlskotla area. I . northwest of Tlmmlns. In which an ' the passage of on eleotrWal curresic, aad ihaJ if two poiee axe s«< tn Che ggronail Eom« dletaoce apart and a curreot pa# sad between diem the current wUt Sow kn straight lin^. Moat ore bodies, however, where metallic nttn-eraJs are preeent Im any tBntity, are «ood coodurctors, so that a tbere to an ore body In the victnity of the cuzrect pas^^faig l>«tw«ea the poias the correac will be diverted to fioilow tbe Kne at least resiartance throng the ore body, aad imstead of Sowioag in straight Inee the current wifi foUow curved lines. The dlrectlna and the intepsity of the current can of civil aviation. per-goM was made last yeex, and of I which a lairge group of claims have atble ore body obtained-. Electrical prospecting has not yet been develop funded what he had contributed to jj ^j^^^gca, ^^ ^efit for the home trip.' ","" '=>"'^»" '» <•"•>» i"»" "^ o.. o^..-- apparentlT valuable dtocovear of cop-' ~-,^~ ,~7':~-'. ~:JTi/Z"Sl .^ tbe initial outlay. The others took; ^ Galley reached St. Maxys oa:^"L'^''''^r. yic^-Bdr-minhul aad director , Jf^^^ l„„ ^^^ ,,^ ^Zl ,^h ^ be measured and a good idea of a po* their chances. Bat the noble earl waal ^pra i_ ig9g At anchor in the harbor ! in all things a shining disciple of .^43 (he frigste Mecca, C^pt, Robert) Safety First j Culllford. The Mecca was a pirate To mininaise the danger of failure, gjiip^ g^^ Culllford was a pirate cap- Captain Kidd was provided with a ' (^in. aerond commission â€" ^wfaich was hisj undoing, through no fault of his â€" authorizing him to seise any ship, whether pirate or not, which flew the flag or sailed under the protection of Mutiny. Ninetyseven of Kidd's men rebelled. This was nearly all he had. They stole the Rouparele, ransacked and Church. In Jans of 1699 the St. An- thony slipped into Long Island Sound and Mr. Bmmot went out tn a boat and met his cUent at Oyster Pond Bay not to be confused with the better- known Oyster Bay), at the eastern end of Lond Island. The lawyer heard teen taken over by the company men- ^d to the potat whet^ it can determine tioned. ' France. Thas was by way of remind- j ^'^.''"m™™**'^.''!.?^!!^ fi-^'il''! the Governor and arrange to have the ; cTpense, they recently approached the This particular area Is heavily over- ] burdened with sand and muskeg, and rock outcrop* are few In number. It la the company's intention to investi- gate tbe entire area covered, by their claims, but, feeling that digging pits KMd's story and said he would see in eand cr muskeg would be a useless ing France that England w«i at war I f?y^» 'o""'*â„¢ ^r raided the dis- with her, though it was a queer sort *"***^?\"^J ""* '^" *i"«/*'' Merchant, of war. Tbe narrative proceeds: The "Adventure Galley." It <5a«t £6,000 to buy the new ship Adventure Galley and fit her out .Kidd was obliged to put in some of his own money to do this. The Ad- venture Galley was of 287 tone bur- den, which was a fairly large ship. She carried thirty guns. With all these documents signed, sealed and delivered, William Kidd be- gan to scare up & crew, when Robert livings'ton reappeared to add some private instructions which it would faav« been untti^tful to put in writing, even in Secret clauses. He toid Kidd not to worry about failure, and rather than let a handsome priae slip through his hands, not to scruple over legal niceties, but to "act without regard to my Commission." Was to "Produce the Goods." In other words, Kidd was not to come back empty-handed. He was expected to capture pirate ^ps, but if no pirate ships sufficiently laden with treasure were available, he was to return with aovxething. This is Kidd's own statement of the conversa- tion, made wlien bis life was at stake, but there is more reason for believing it than there is for disbelieving it. Tbe official morality of the time con- doned such thing^s. It was a common practice for pirate hunters to go out for pirates and come l>ack with some- thing, split with a few officials and go their way. With a short-handed crew Kidd sailed from London in April of 1696. On tbe voyage to New York he cap- tured a little French fishing vessel and brought it into port, a lawful priae. Then he started filling up the ship's company for the grand cruise. A Bad Crew. It was hard to get the right sort of men on a no-prisse no-pay basis, to oaptain retired from the sea a« a ^j^^j^ ^^ ^„^ bound by instructions. He wound up by taking any nMn he could get, and when the bars were let down, there were plenty of appUcante. "Many flockt to him from all partsi," wrote Benjamin Fletcher, the current Governor of New York, "men of dee- regolar thing, and devoted meet of his tlnse to his property in New York, and that which be had acquired by marriage. Tbe Kidds Uved in a three-storey Mck houaa at the comer of PWrl and Hanover streets. The Turkey carpet ^e fortune and necessitous, in the on tivs parlor floor was tbs first Ori- ental rug in New Yock, they say. The elite of the eokny attended tbe social gatherings of Captain BSdd'e boose, walked on the Turkey carpet, and admired the rare articles he had brought bome on his voyages. VIsltad London. OccasioDally the captain spiced tbe tranquillity of his retirement with a voyage^ we are UAi. He was in Lo<f>- don in the winter of 1694. Thwe he Btat a feJlow New Yorker, Robert Liv- ingston, who had amassed a fortune eonneeted somehow mysteriourty with salt water. livingston bad a scheme fcr making money, which ho laid be- A>re tbs Oaptain, and it came out that ha was acting for men high in power, who w<ere backing the enterprise for their own profit Mr. James gives us their august names. There was the Earl of Bellomont, who was to be the next Governor of New York â€" there was tbe king blm- •elf. These gentlemen solicited tbe services of Captain Kidd for a spe- oial expedition to capture pirates. Kidd was not bom yesterday. He know that when sruch gentlemen sol expectation of getting vast treasure. On September 6, 169C, Captain Kidd sailed away with a crew of 154 â€" "as finished a collection of cutthroats as ever tramped a deck." Out past the Madeira Islands and down the coast of Africa to the Cape of Good Hope the pirats hunter sailed, stopping every ship on tbe way, searching Us papers, but finding them always regular. By the time the Adventure Galley reached Madagascar, 147 days out from New York, with no booty whatever, relate* Mr. James, the crew were growing restless and mutlnoua After they Crossed the Indian Ocean to the coast of Hindustan, a small veeeel carrying English papers was overhauled, hoard- ed and rifled. Apparently this wse the only Incident that amounted to piracy In Captain Kidd's career, and he said It was the act of his mutinous men, who took matters Into their own faandsL The pickings, at any rate^ were slim, and what is more Important, w4ien Kidd was brought to trial "with the cards deliberately stacked against him," this offcitss was not mentioned. Hunting Poor. Fifteen mouths passed and no prize. In which Kidd proposed to go bome. Kidd managed to hold the ships, but the mutineers carried oft nearly every- thing portable, inchiding all the trea- sure they could find, and the cannon. They mardied Inland to where Kidd had stored some of tbe treasure at a planter's house aad took that On the fifteenth of June^ CnUifbrd saliBd away, leaving Kidd utterly â- traaded. EOa four-hundred-ton ship bad bestt ptcfcM dean, and he had only thlrteeo mao. Tbe Adventure Galley had fallva to pieces. It took him five months la that out-of-the-way port to get his ship equipped and enough men to man her for the homeward voyage. A Fatal Delay. This delay, says Mr. James, was fatal to Kidd. Unsettling rumors had be- gun to sift back to civlllzatk>n. The powerful EbuM India Company was out for the soalp of this man who had been sa!4ing In .waters where they had a monopoly. Because of Kidd's Infiuen- tiol backars, the company had to be careful, but the seizure of the two ships under Flinch passes gave It the desired opportunity. London had re- cently launched a grand crusade against buccaneers, llits crusade was not gbtng well, we are told, and Kidd was a convenient victim for a Govern- ment anxious ot show results. So to- ward the close of 169S an order was sent out to arrest "that obnoxious pirate Kidd." When the ill-fated cap- tain set out on his long voyage back to New York, he knew nothing of the coll that was tightening around him. By the time he reached the Leeward Islands, southeast of Cuba, his ship and crew were in a desperate condi- tion, relates Mr. James. He appealed to the authorities for relief only to learn that he was a fugitive from Ju» tice, and, finally: Dodging the Law. Giving a British warehip tbe sUp, he purchased a sloop called the St Anthony, and left the Quedah Mei^ chant concealed in a cove near the coast ot Hispantola. now San Domin- go, under guard of a trusted friend and the remnant of the crew. The big ship had £30,000 to £100,000 of treasure aboard, which the guards lost little time in appropriating when Kidd charges against Kidd quashed. Governor Double Crosses Kidd. The Governor was my Lord of Hello- mount. At this moment the King was preoccupied with his antlplracy cru- sade. The Governor did not have to think twice to surmise that it would DepartmesiC of Mines with the request that they be permitted to perform the ae£«e»m«nt work by making an electri- cal survey. Diamond Drilling After The department b«Ueved it to be la whether the indicated ore body is ot value, but It cam determine the Iocs, tton of mineralozed areas, which caa bo proved by diamond drilling or by tren-chlng and te&t -pitting. Day of Engineer Prospectors Tbs old-time prospector is becoming more of a claims siaker than any- thtng else, and the fleU U gradually being usurped by the young, active and Intelligent prospector amd by the sclOTitiflcaliy trained men. There Is a growing field for the engineer and the geologist, and a number of explorv tton companiee 2.re now sending this type of men ittto th.j new flelds. not the public tntereet, and especially 'n _ _ be a ferthVr la hir cap'to' bagthe "ob- i ^^^ intereet of the mining Industry, to ^ ^' ^^ ^^^' p^^.ting" buVIlM la eohstantlatloB of . ^''* * thorough aad practical test tbe two eelzures for "**'• °' "**^ eleectrtc or "geophy- sicai" methods, and an Order-in-Coun- to do the staking. Universttias see the modem trend cf affairs, and will train especially for thfs aozioas" Kidd. tbe legality ot Vhioh KMd had beea ootlaved, Mr. "'"'â- *" ^-^^^-u^^^ o^^u „^ w.u-<ri-i^-,.v.uii- young engineers Emmot placed tn the Oovwnor's hanita <^" a<:<wiingly has been passed to give ^iaa of wwk. the two Frwjch paaaes which the Cap- '^ company the opportunity to supply : tain had tak»n tn«n those vessels. f * *^ "^ » ^^^ ^'^^^ TJie company pjf^ tw e^d r^ LI .ImoW That was Kidd'. undoing. Later, af- '* ^ '^ ^« ^<^^ ^^^^ ^* ^«>" "f ^rf^ts by a^roo^^o ^kf^r^ ter being Qlegsily traos^ed to Lou- \ "^7 and 1928. One stipulation ot the f^^^^^ ^Slct' su.^v c^v^ don fortrliL and lanrokJilnr In Vew «iTan«»ment is thit where indication* ^^«°a*aace gw.ogtca. survey covg*^ S°e TslT^^rt^ a vir hte'°' ^ *-« ^'^ "y the survey thl*^ .'^^ Tt!" . ?* T^ '^râ„¢'*^ Sse was cSed and we read oT I <^'>"*P*°y '«! ^^^ «" ^^^ ^« T '^? ^'^ ^ "^'T^, ^ ''''° """ weot to trial. Electrical Prospecting Devices Used I p^y ^ important part, as the men and An Unfair Trial. '^^^ electrical prospecting dsvlces apparafjs can easiy be iransporto<l by have adso proved th-ea- wortb under , aeroplsjie. Prospectors also E&e thJe certain condition*, and axe now com- ' new (ie^-clopment. ani a number of ing into more generai use. The scleatii'c definition of electrical pros- pecting would probably be "the ap- pilication of electricity to known geo- but this conTe}"s littJe to the average man. Briefly, the theory of electrical prospecting is bai-ie4 upon Kidd made a valiant fight to clear his nama he might exhibit the French passes. He was told they could not be found. The prosecutor who addressed the jur}- admitted that U Kidd could show French passes he should not be con- victed. But, he exclaimed, Kidd had BO passes. He scoffed at the Captain's pretension that he had possessed such passes until he had trustingly surren- dered tiiem to the authorittee. The out of sight Taking £15.000 in tbe j Jury brought In a verdict of guilty. sloop, Kidd sailed northward, hoping and William Kidd was agafai sentenced Four judges presided. Four lawyers represented the prosecution. Kidd j asked for a lawyer, but the petition ; was denied. In open court he request- i ed the return of his papers which he \ had surrendered before his arrest in j phyaicai la.ws. America. He was insolently asked what he waited with them. Kidd said the French passes would acquit him of the charge of piracy. Whereupon the prisoner was informed that he was not to be tried for piracy, but for murder, upon which the passes had no bearing. The death of a mutinous sailor he had struck with a bucket, to restore discipline, was dragged up against him. We are told that the Jury was pract> caUy instructed to bring in a verdict of murder, and Kidd was sentenced to death. Thenâ€" tbam aire already arranging 10 go into remote ifetricts aext sprlc-s. seK-'ure in the knowitjdga that distaac? is no longer the h-adicap it once w.-.s. ani i tha,t H di'scov^aries of su(flc:ent im- portance ara miade traasportation wiil be provided. PLAN OF MEMORIAL PLEASES COOUDGE President of U.S. Expresses Appreciation of Canada's Tribute. Ottawa â€" FYesiOont Ccolidge. through hie Secretary of State, h'ss PATRIOTISM PUT ON WORLD BASIS Sir ELsme Howard Favors Eng- lish-.American Entente to Insure Peace. precAktioa of the plan recently ap- 1 , , , , , With the rope already about his neck. 1 f--^ ^^ ^"-"-^ ^- ^? «-•"- nirto'T^rt^ar tte^^^t Zl IS KMd mad« a valiant flrhf tn /-i««r M. *'^ ArHngton cemetery at Washington A . ^' ' ^"^ towara He asled ?or his ~i^ thlt °' » '^^'^'>'''^ '^ -'Unertca^ who serv- ^^''^ P^^*,=ra.t oe a real entente be- ne assea ror nis papers tnat _j _,..^ ^^_ ^ _^_ ^ tween English-speaking nations and his troubles were over. Before reaching New York, hs sent ahsad and engaged a lawyerâ€" James Bmmot, a leading member ot the coloa- la) bar and a vsetryman ot to death.- -Literary Digest. Good ltt<A Is a lasy man's estimate Xrlnlty *>f *â-  worker's sacoese. ed with the Canadian force*. .. ... Fw this urpose $100,000 was voted that thj acceptance of the axiom that aad the expenditure haa now been "^"^'^"^''t!" ""* °*''°°* '''*' '""" formally authorized by tbe Govern- 1"*" ^'^'**'* Empire and the UniteJ m«.ti. The Imperial War Gravee Com- ' !'^'^' ^ ^° Incredible absurdity wouKl mission bea also given iU cootseot to *^* °**"? '^ estaWish a reign of p*ac* a memorial, whicb will take tbe form °° ^"° *'**'* anything that could b« oi a cross of sacriflce, , proposed. ^^ 1 'Everyone does lip service to the The Law and Cupid. reign of peace â€" but I fear there are London.â€" A summons against a '°*oy '^'^^ â„¢*ke mental reeervatlons.' motorist wae adjouroed at Lambeth i^*^ E^sme said. "As between the Court so as not to interupt hia honey-! ^n't'*d Stat« and the British Empire^ moon. i however, there should be no reeerva. ADAMSOfTS ADVENTURESâ€" By O. Jacobnon. kited, they commanded. In tbe whole and no money (or the penniless, growl- British kingdom it would have been j ing crew. Kidd's situation became hard to find a mors formidable list of names with which to overwhelm tbs demurrers of a aimpls sea cap- tain. » His Last Trip Arranged. The bargain was mada Tbe pirates were to be brought bomk for trial, but bb Majerty did not say what hla wwU'bslovcd captain was to do with the incrchandisM, money, ete. Thai point, lM>wev<er, wa« covered tn otber •rttclM In which, for certain rsasom. the Kings name did not apptar. One mlghl expsct that this loot vnyaii ba ratomed to Its riglitf ul owners, but that WM not the plan. "Serve God tn the best mwinsr yoa can," wrote my liord of BeUotttonk, in Kidd'o nap- plementary inrtruetlons, and "ntl di- rectly to Boatoa, tn New Bncland, there to delivar nnto mo the whole of what Prises^ Tnttmx*, tt Merchan- dize you shah bars takoa." Then ona- fourth of tho cargo would bo dividod critical. His ship was leaking, bis pro- visions low, his men treacherous and surly, and his own life In danger. Then lurlc turned. In the month of Novermber, 1697. tho Adventure Gallety fell In with the w^l-stocked Indian trader Kouparelle. whldi was sailing under a French pass ot safe-conduct. and therefore seized. And on the first ot Pebraury following Captain Ktdd made the haul which scorned to re- deem the vo}-age. A Rsal Haul. The Galley was nosing about in ths Indian Ocean under French colors when a sail ot enormous spread was cried. Kidd ran up. Seeing the fleur- de-ly». the big ship made no effort to get away, but announced herself as the Quedah Merchant from Surat, pro- perty ot that fabled oriental poteniate, the Great Mosul. Kidd Invited her master to come on board and submit his papers. When tbe Quedah Mst^ tlons. However much we may differ, A friend te a fellow who wlU listen!*'^** ^ ^l*'''' doubt we may have falriy bo roor troubles instead of telling serloue differences In the future as ia about his own. the past, our m«utal attitude abouM be always that they must be setUs4 peaceably either by diplomatic negotia- tion or by arbitration. No other solu- tion would be worthy ot oe. "We at any rate>. .\mericat» aad Bri- tishers', should let the world know that we sre too proud to fight with each other. It would be altogether be-' neath us. I feel deeply that once we baVQ tt!ta{)l!3hed a real sense ot con- I ttdecco lu each other half the battle' j for the outlawing of war wll; hav» â-  been won." » While defending the right of com. ^ munities to local patriotisms Sir E*me I said: "^ft sort To ivatrloti'*iii that (-:>•»- j not !pok be.voad its own frontiers wO^ I end by not being able to look bevond jits own house door.., ( "Just as faonuy patriotLim gave way ,to tribal pati^otism and tribal patriot- ism to national ratrlotism, I b?.;ieva j that wo shall, if this world's affaire are to be carried on In peaoe, ult». metely develop a world patriotism.- Then and Now Kingston Whig Standard iLib.): The death like sUence and stupor of the Sabbftth^cf the past Is gone aad probably gon* forever. But tho death* ly clamor of our twentieth century Sabbath (s equally Impossible^, O A Skin Game Vancouver Province (Ind.): .A mam over la Yakima Is engaged in tbe hasardous occupation of catchto« rat> tie snakes for their skins. In two daya he bagsed 170 of the ceaomooa rsp> tllea It U a great life If yon do aot get rattledk « It Is a lot more satisfying to mak* a success in a small way than tt is t< make a failure In a big way.