Hanging of Captain Kidd

This is Don Hollandack in the conference chamber of the Admiralty in London. On this 23rd day of May, 17-1, Sir Rodney Graves, prominent member of the House of Commons, has still not arrived for his scheduled appointment at this time with Lord Arford, First Lord of the Admiralty.

The Rodney requested that appointment. It's expected he will present a petition to Lord Arford signed by several members of the House of Commons. petition will request a stay of execution for Captain William Kidd, who within the hours scheduled a hang at execution dock at Whapping on the Thames for piracy on the high seas.

Here in the conference chamber of the Admiralty, a group of reporters are crowded around the table where Lord Orford presides, May 23rd, 71, London England, You, a prominent member of the House of Commons, makes an 11th hour attempt to stay the hanging of Captain Kidd condemned for piracy. CBS takes you back 247 years to the truth behind a false

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Now London, the Conference Chamber of the Ordinary and Gone Horn Bay. It's successful in securing from Lord Orford a stay of execution for Captain Kidd. The captain is 56 years old and American colonial from New York.

He was commissioned three and a half years ago by Lord Orford to sweep the seas of pirates who were destroying English trade. After 18 months on the high seas it was alleged that Captain Kidd was using his royal commission as a cloak for his own profitable free-booting.