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Domestic News
September 12, 1797
Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
What is this article about?
A burglary occurred at Mr. Jonathan Meredith's house on Chestnut between Third and Fourth Streets sometime in the past week. Thieves used a ladder to enter the second story from the backyard, methodically rifling the house from the first to third floors, breaking locks and bolts.
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A robbery has been committed, some time in the past week, upon the house of Mr. Jonathan Meredith, in Chestnut, between Third and Fourth Streets. By the help of a ladder, the villains were enabled to make their way into the second story, from the yard back of the house: They appear, from various circumstances, to have gone to work with the utmost deliberation, in rifling the whole house, breaking locks and bolts from the first story to the 3d.
The above audacious attempt ought to warn our too careless fellow-citizens not to leave houses in such a situation as to tempt the enterprize of the lawless: for tho' the above house was secured as far as it had ever been, or could be deemed necessary, yet numbers of houses may be found in circumstances rather inviting the attempt of the unprincipled robber.
A robbery has been committed, some time in the past week, upon the house of Mr. Jonathan Meredith, in Chestnut, between Third and Fourth Streets. By the help of a ladder, the villains were enabled to make their way into the second story, from the yard back of the house: They appear, from various circumstances, to have gone to work with the utmost deliberation, in rifling the whole house, breaking locks and bolts from the first story to the 3d.
The above audacious attempt ought to warn our too careless fellow-citizens not to leave houses in such a situation as to tempt the enterprize of the lawless: for tho' the above house was secured as far as it had ever been, or could be deemed necessary, yet numbers of houses may be found in circumstances rather inviting the attempt of the unprincipled robber.
What sub-type of article is it?
Crime
What keywords are associated?
Burglary
Robbery
Jonathan Meredith
Chestnut Street
House Break In
What entities or persons were involved?
Mr. Jonathan Meredith
Where did it happen?
Chestnut, Between Third And Fourth Streets
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Chestnut, Between Third And Fourth Streets
Event Date
Some Time In The Past Week
Key Persons
Mr. Jonathan Meredith
Outcome
house rifled, locks and bolts broken; no arrests or stolen items specified
Event Details
Thieves used a ladder to enter the second story from the backyard and deliberately searched the entire house from the first to third floors.