Rochester, Monroe, NY
Rochester Daily Advertiser
Thurs.
Oct 3, 1833
From the Montreal Daily Advertiser
JAIL DELIVERY - Eight prisoners escaped lately from the Niagara Jail, one
of whom was John Fitzgerald, detained under a charge of murder, perpetrated
some time ago, in Ireland, and waited the instructions of the home government;
the remainder, generally were under the charge of larceny. The escape was effected
while the jailor was clearing the cells. The criminals were together in the
hall allotted them in the day, and made a noise while FITZGERALD sawed his irons
with a razor. After which they managed to turn the key upon the jailor, and
escaped, but not without encountering some resistance from the jailer's wife,
whom they maltreated. FITZGERALD eluded detection for some time, but was subsequently
retaken in Niagara, through the information of his wife. Two more of the criminals
have been taken but 5 still remain at large.
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STEAM BOAT SUNK - We learn from the New Orleans papers, that the steam boat
Sangamon, Culver, from New Orleans for Manchester, with a full cargo of coffee
and assorted merchandise, struck a snap about six miles below Lafourche, on
the 5th inst., and sunk to the gards. All the cargo was got out in a damaged
state.
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SINGULAR ACCIDENT - On Friday the 20th inst., as Miss VAN BUREN, a young
lady of the Valatie, was dressing her hair in the factory of Mr. BALDWIN, she
accidentally brought it in contact with one of the horizontal iron shafts which
makes 53 revolutions the minute. The shaft is square, two and a half inches
in diameter and is placed about 17 inches from the upper floor. The young lady
was standing nearly under it, facing from it, and in tossing back her hair,
which she had been combing over her face, probably without reflecting that the
shaft above her was in motion, it caught fast, and she found herself drawn up
towards it with the velocity of lightning. With an extraordinary presence of
mind, she grasped the shaft with her hands at the same time making a violent
effort to place her feet upon it, in order that by revolving with it she might
escape a dislocation of the neck. She succeeded in clinging to the shaft during
two or three revolutions, but its velocity was such as at length to break her
hold, and she was projected a distance of 8 or 10 feet from it, leaving her
entire scalp from the extremities of the eye lids to the third vertebrae of
the neck, fast to the shaft and revolving with it. She arose immediately from
the floor and proceeded to stop one of the looms which she tended while the
overseer stopped (didn't get the rest)
Oct. 5, 1833
DIED
In the Seneca village, on the 19th inst., Mary JEMISON, the "White Woman,"
aged 91 years. She was taken captive by the Indians in her childhood, and in
spite of all entreaties and persuasions, remained with them to the day of her
death. A book giving an account of her captivity and sufferings has heretofore
been published, which will hereafter be perused with much interest, as illustrative
of the character of the "Red Man of the forest."
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