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Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political
Alexandria, Virginia
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Three prisoners escaped from Winchester gaol on Saturday night by heating stove rods to saw through plank and remove wall stones; one charged with horse stealing, two blacks.
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The gaol in this place was broke on the night of Saturday last, and three persons, (a white man, charged with horse stealing, and two blacks,) made their escape. It appears on examination that this was effected by means of perforating the inner lining, which is of six inch plank, with the rods of a stove, which were repeatedly heated and served the purpose of a saw, by this means they succeeded in gouging a space sufficiently large to enable them to remove the stones of the wall, and to effect their escape.
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Winchester
Event Date
Night Of Saturday Last
Outcome
three persons made their escape
Event Details
The gaol in this place was broke on the night of Saturday last, and three persons, (a white man, charged with horse stealing, and two blacks,) made their escape. It appears on examination that this was effected by means of perforating the inner lining, which is of six inch plank, with the rods of a stove, which were repeatedly heated and served the purpose of a saw, by this means they succeeded in gouging a space sufficiently large to enable them to remove the stones of the wall, and to effect their escape.