There was a thunderstorm of unusual violence on the night of July 2, 1834 and the young Sam Dewey, he was just 28, took his row boat from Billy Gray's Wharf in Boston and rowed over to the USS Constitution. Climbing over the ship's side by use of the manropes, he went to the bow.
There he accomplished the decapitation and rowed back to safety. He took the fruits of his labor with him with the idea of presenting the head to President Jackson himself. However, Jackson was seriously ill and no one permitted to visit him.
He did get to see Vice President Van Buren though, who was not amused.
Dewey then gave the head to the Secretary of the Navy, Mahlon Dickerson, and no charges were filed, however.
You Sure Would Have Thought. --Brock-Perry
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