Daily national Democrat., 1858-10-21
DAILY DEMOCRAT

ESCAPE FROM GoAL.-On Friday evening
last week. convicted garroter, named Ro-
bert Boyd, under sentence of six years penal
seryitude, made daring and clever escape
from his cell in the goal of Newcastle-upon
Tyne With a chsel he forced the foul-wa
pipe from the wall and roofs and then sqeezed
through the aperature Us by inches) and
so gained the roof Possessing himself of
rugs from empty cells, he proceeded to cal.
lery round the wing of the prison, communi-
eating by an iron bridge with another gale
ry round the wing in which is placed the
Governors house, and thus reached within
few feet of the Governors bedroom. flow
ever, he crossed the bridge, entered the pal-
lery above the Governors window, and. eros
sing another bridge on another side, he
dropped to the ground in an open space be.
tween the cell buildings and the outer wall
OF the prison. He next got over a wall in
the stoneyard, where, possessing himself of a
plank and two bags of teased hair, he reas-
cended the wall which intersects the outer
wall forty feet lower, and is furnished with
che0dar de frise at the point of intersersec-
ton. Having choked this apparatus with the
bags of hair, so as to prevent the spiked
roller revolving, he placed one cad of the
plank upon it, raised the other to the top of
the boundary wall and clambered up the
plank to the top of the outer wall Then
fastening one end of a knotted rope made of
the rugs to the plank, and finging the rope
down the outer face of the wall, he descended
into Carliol squaIe, got clear away, and has
not since been traced. 1t is supposed he
gained the street between two and half past
three o'clock in the morning, as nothing was
seen at the former time. and at the latter the
Of itrhf ha1 i
from the wall
A convict at Chatham. named Thomas
Forsde twice restored transport of despe-
rate character made ring escape from
the establishment after being locked in his |
cell after work on Saturday evening last.
lie must have secreted some tools on his per
son whilst in the dockyard, aud then, bv |
working till between three and four in the |
succeeded in cutting hole rather
more than foot square through the iron
ceiling of his cell, more than the eighth of
IN inch thick Before quitting his cell, he !
tore up his sheets and blankets, and tied them
-og their te be used as a rope After getting
through the ceiling he crawled for some dis.
.ance between the rafters and roof of the
prison until he found an opening, when he |
let himself down into the yard, the early |
hour enabling him to elude the vigilance of !
The warders. He then crossed the prison
yard, and by means of his rope succeeded in
scaling the high boundary wall of the pris-
)n. On descending the other side he was
seen by one of the Coastguard men stationed
At ST. Mary's creek, who called upon him to
stop, threatening to shoot him if he did not.
The convict, however ran off, the man firing
1t him without effect. AS soon as the escape
became known, a number of warders turned
)ut to endeavor to capture him, but so sue
,essfully had he carried out his escape that
he was not missed even by the man on duty
n his part of the prison After leaving St
Mary's it was ascertaned that he broke into
he railway station at New Brompton, and
'tole some Clothes which he wore away,
aking the direction towards Canterbury
On Tuesday afternoon Thomas Brown,
prisoner, who had just received a sentence of
en- years penal servitude, made his escape
rom Lancaster Castle lie presented himself
It the gate as one of the workmen going into
he town for some tools, and the turnkey let
iim out.-London Ne,cs, Auq,tst l4M