Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
26th April 1693
Robert
Beames
proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 2949.
, was Tryed, for that he
being Committed a Prisoner to the Goal of Newgate, and being there under the Care of
William
Richardson
< no role >
Gent. and Keeper of the said Goal, and the Sheriffs of London, he did break out of the said Goal, and made his escape
, but was taken in a few days after at Wapping. They had some Augres, with which he and another bored holes in the Boards and broke through, and then by the help of a long Rope they slided down and got away; the other was not now Tryed; the Prisoner was found
guilty
of Felony.
[Death. See summary.]