BOY PIRATES.
TOM SAWYERS IN REAL LIFE. AN UNROMANTIC END. The ' River Thames at Wapping dots not' seem a suitable scene for piracy; but "a gang of boy buccaneers under a- "captain" named Gould have been finding there all the booty and adventure they required. Robert Gould and James Jones spent a morning recently in stopping pleasure beats rowed, -by boys, and making them hand over what " treasure " they possessed. Five boys from Lambeth were rowing past; Wapping, when the pirates "bore drown" on 'them, grappled 1 on to the boat, and demanded jjilj money and valuables on pain of sinking the vessel with ail on b;:.ai"d. Two boys handed over a penny each, which were accepted by the pirates, who also, helped themselves to a watch which another boy curried. Gould was sentenced to two months imprisciiment and Jones to six weeks'.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7232, 19 October 1901, Page 4
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