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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1904
Page
6
Dickory Charter returns aboard the pirate vessel with news of Kate Bonnet. Captain Bonnet, now a smug pirate leader, pressures him for his daughter’s safety and fate as the Revenge captures merchantmen along the Charleston and New England coast. Dickory hopes to reach Jamaica with word of his father’s fate and Kate’s safety.
Anchored at Charles Town harbor in South Carolina, Dickory frets with friend Ben Greenway as two ships near: a large merchantman with a full cargo and a northward bound bark in ballast. Capt Bonnet plots to seize the bark as a tender to trim cargo on the Revenge, already overloaded, and to aid in marooning and other troublesome duties.
A special B and O W train departs Athens Ohio June 18 at 3 30 p m for Knights of Pythias in uniform. Round trip from Athens is 10 with through travel to World’s Fair Grounds. Returning train leaves St Louis June 26. Details from agent J H Larrabee Chillicothe Ohio.
Notice reveals an application before the Ohio State Board of Pardons for the commutation of William Goins sentenced to ten years in the Ohio penitentiary for manslaughter, after conviction at the April 1902 Athens county term. The notice lists dates June 9 to 13 and mentions Mrs. Goins.
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