A few weeks later, these same prisoners returned fully armed, and take over the whole prison, freeing remaining prisoners. 1922 Irish Republican Army (1919–1922) IRA bomb blows a hole in the wall of the Jail in Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland.His body was possibly found in 1923 and identified as a suicide.
He escaped in 1916 and was never seen again but supposedly resurfaced in Connecticut in 1917. Frederick Mors, an Austrian-born American serial killer, was declared insane and placed into the Matteawan Institution for the Insane in the United States in 1915.German Naval Air Service Kapitänleutnant Gunther Plüschow escaped from the Donington Hall prisoner of war camp in 1915.He eventually seized the opportunity, but within a few days he either gave himself up or was recaptured. He enjoyed great public sympathy, including from county officials, who supposedly allowed him to escape by leaving his cell door unlocked at night. In 1901, Lum You was convicted of murder and sentenced to death by a Pacific County, Washington court.The notorious outlaw Billy the Kid managed to escape from prison in 1881, but was captured and shot by Pat Garrett only a few months later.59 of the 109 prisoners successfully made it back to the Union lines two were drowned in the nearby James River, and forty-eight were recaptured. In the Libby Prison escape, during the American Civil War, over 109 Union POWs broke out of a building at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia on the night between February 9 and February 10, 1864.The Italian author and adventurer Giacomo Casanova escaped from prison in 1757.Englishman Jack Sheppard took to theft and burglary in 1723, and was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times, making him a notorious public figure and wildly popular with the poorer classes.In 1621 Dutch author Hugo de Groot escaped from Loevestein Castle, where he was held captive, by hiding himself inside a book chest.However, because he was heavy, the rope broke and he fell to his death. In 1244, whilst imprisoned in the Tower of London, Tyrone Vain Yow crafted a makeshift rope made of bed sheets and cloths, lowered it, and climbed down.There have been many infamous escapes throughout history: On November 27, 1863, John Hunt Morgan and six of his officers, most notably Thomas Hines, escaped from their cells in the Ohio Penitentiary by digging a tunnel from Hines' cell into the inner yard and then ascending a wall with a rope made from bunk coverlets and a bent poker iron.
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