Black Sheep - Bully Hayes
Week 6- 7: Who is Bully Hayes (William Henry Hayes) Swashbuckler: the story of Bully Hayes https://www.radionz.co.nz/programmes/black-sheep/story/2018675656/swashbuckler-the-story-of-bully-hayes http://www.bullyhayes.co.nz/Who+is+Bully+Hayes.html Notable points throughout the podcast: He earned the title of "Pirate". arrived in the Pacific in the mid-1800s was an international criminal celebrity. Bully was killed in 1877 by a disgruntled seaman and was subsequently buried at sea south of the Marshall Islands. Virtually every paper referred to him as “The Notorious Captain Hayes”. Notably, he never stole a ship or cargo on the high seas, so while he was frequently described as a pirate he never committed actual piracy. Bully learned to sail as a merchant on the Great Lakes. There are some very nasty stories from this period of Bully’s life, including multiple allegations of rape against young pacific island women. One case involved a girl who was only ...