A gaol delivery
Delaware State Journal
The Unionist 1834-04-10
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A gaol delivery. —The prisoners confined in the county gaol at New Castle, effected their escape on Tuesday night. The prisoners were confined in two apartments, one on the ground floor, and the other on the second story directly above. The prisoners in the lower room, with the aid of a file or saw, cut through the iron grating of the window through which they could pass into the ward; the prisoners above cut a hole in the floor large enough to enable them all to pass through into the room below and join their comrades. They had previously cut their mattress, and discharging the contents, converted the ticking into a rope ladder; with the aid of which, one of the number, after they had got into the yard, scaled the high wall which encloses the yard, and going round to the gate, knocked off the lock, or outer fastening, and gave egress to the whole fraternity. Eleven of these minions of the moon are said to have effected their enlargement.— Delaware State Journal
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