A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Chester http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1946 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=51339 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The American Weekly Mercury Article Date: November 11 1725 Article Description: Two Prisoners, William BENNET and John BULL, Break Out of Goal. Article Text: Broke out of the Common Goal of Chester, Oct. 28, 1725, between the hours of twelve and four, two prisoners, one named William BENNET (an Irish-man), of large stature and well set, with short thick brown hair, has on a brown cloath coat, ozenbrig shirt, dirty leather breeches, brown yarn stockins, old round toe'd shoes, and no hat unless he has got one since broke prison. The other named John BULL, (an English-man) thick and of short stature, with short brown hair, has on a felt hat, copper coloured jacket, ozenbrig shirt, leather breeches, cotten stockings and old round toe'd shoes. Any person that will take up the said William BENNET and John BULL, (they are two notorious rogues) and secure them in the next goal, so as they may be had or bring them to the common goal at Chester, aforesaid shall have as a reward four pounds or for each of them so taken forty shillings, paid them by, William WELDON. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com