A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1710 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=53634 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The New York Weekly Journal Article Date: May 10 1736 Article Description: John WHATNELL and Michael M'DEIRMAT Executed for Burglary. Article Text: Philadelphia, April 29. >From Bermuda, they write that a sea monster has been lately seen there, the upper part of the whose body was in the shape and bigness of a boy of 12 years old, with long black hair, the lower part resembled a fish. He was first seen on shore, and taking to the water was pursued by people in a boat, who intended to strike him with a fishgig, but approaching him, the human likeness surprised them into compassion, and they had not the power to do it. Yesterday two men were executed here, who received sentence of death at the sessions of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, for burglary, viz. John WHATNELL, who was born in the County of Cheshire in England, aged 27 years, and Michael M'DEIRMAT, an Irishman, about 27. During the time of their imprisonment after their condemnation, they appeared penitent, bewailing their sins, and desirous of instruction. At the place of execution, they seem'd very earnest in their supplication to Heaven for mercy, and cautioning the spectators (which were very numerous) to take warning by their miserable and shameful end. (John WHATNELL, on the morning that he suffer'd, deliver'd a paper which he earnestly desired might be published, wherein he declares his wife to have had no hand in his roberies.) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com Also visit our other sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com http://www.AutumnWindz.com