Colchester June 30.
Last week two highwaymen were apprehended at a public house at Ongar, and being carried before one of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the said County and examined they were committed to Chelmsford gaol; but in their passage thither one of them found means to escape from the officers who had him in custody, by flinging himself over a gate and running down a field, at the end of which was a river, which he jumped into and swam to the other side, notwithstanding his hands were pinioned, and got clear off. The other was carried to gaol and has since impeached his companions and given an account of the robberies committed by them; so that tis hoped they will soon be brought to justice.
Stamford Mercury 6 July 1738