Blackbeard's Fourteenth Wife, Why She Was Not Good For Him

Good evening. This is Crime Classics. I am Thomas Highland with another true story of crime. Listen. That's a pair of scissors. Hand wrought and gold in the shape of a peacock. The young lady who's using them is trimming her husband's beard.

The beard has just been washed to get the blood out of it. For a few hours ago, out on the bounding main, her husband stabbed a few fellows from up close. and the beard has been perfume too to get the gunpowder and sulfur smells out of it because there's just been a battle and now the beard is being trimmed before curling

because her husband is very vain about his beard. It is a black beard which caused some 18th century pundit to dub him black beard. His real name Edward Teach, a A profession, pirate, his wife, Hannah.

Hannah's all done. The beard's all ready for curling. Such a good wife. Oh, no, she wasn't. Tonight my report to you on Blackbeard's 14th wife. Why, she was no good for it. Crime classics. A series of true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land and every time.

Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Highland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders. Now once again, Thomas Hyland. Here of 1714, the place is the caribees. Two vessels locked in combat.

One flying the skull and bones. The other, the three penitent gun full on of the Duke de la Sanalbon. The very Duke de la Sanalbonne, who boasted to history that his 40 gun vessel La Plante would never be boarded by pirates.

Well, it was, wasn't it? And the Duke, he was defending himself against the pirate, Edward Teach by name, and here's what was happening. Teach had just disengaged into the cart line. The Duke parries taught, there goes Teach into the Valet Strah, calculated to throw the Duke off balance, but the Duke parries goes into a dupe,