Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1858 — Lake Pireate. [ARTICLE]

Lake Pireate.

The Detroit papers mention the arrest in that city, on Monday, of the i-ehooner Prairie J’/otrer, of a bon t thirty tons burthen, and (several parties connected with her, on the suspicion o! being engaged in a general system ol pj,racy along th-’ shores of the lakes. A quantity ot woo l sacks s'olen from n Detroit house, and a large amount of clothing, were found on boarnras well as a large bunch of keys, roughly cast and of various sizes, evidently c ist bv them lor the purpose of being fitted to various locks, as their extended business might require; and a number ol padlocks, evidently taken from freight • cars. One of them was marked "N. Y. C.,” (New York Central) and another similar lock was wrenched apart with a chisel A cooper’s drawing knife was found in the cabin, used doubtless to obliterate names on boxes or .barrels whi”h they might steal. The hold of the schooner is filled partly with gravel and partly with pig iron for ballast. Among other things found in the cabin w.s a bundle of letters from M iria Keyes, the Queen of the Cleveland R ver Pirates, which establishes the fact of a lormidablegang of pirates being in existence on Lake Ivrie, if it extends no further.