Roger

One hundred dollars reward, TO any person who will apprehend and secure, so that he may be brought to justice, a certain runaway from the laboratory near the corner Sixth and Chest-nut streets, which has long been under the direction of Mr. Jonathan Fulmen. This runaway is a tall, stout, lusty, fellow, six feet or upwards, with black eyes and hair, of a down look and sallow complexion, wore light coloured clothes, and carried a large hickory in his band. He calls himself Roger ____________. Tis tho’the is gone to the new states: he was seen in a stage at four o'clock this evening. As all the other workmen had a furlough about an hour after this desertion, no notice would have been taken of it, had he not carried with him a certain extraordinary weapon which cost the public some months ago a sum a little short of ten thousand dollars: this costly weapon, whether real or imaginary, is nothing more or less than a wooden sword. Some say it is nothing more than a dream of Mr. Fulmen which has brought the weapon into exist-ence, while others presume to think it was raked up from among the rubbish of the old ruined fort at Ti-conderoga: at any rate it is allowed on all lands thatt he runaway has carried it with him, and it is shrewd-ly suspected that the country he comes from means to justify him in the theft and elopement, and that they will set up an order to be named after their favourite knight Sir Roger.    The above reward is offered by the king of the forest, who will wait two days in the great city, in hopes to put his paw in the culprit.        July 19, 1798.