True crime · 1879
Rummu Jüri's rope escape from Toompea Castle
Jüri Rummo, born in 1856 in Kehtna parish, became Estonia's most famous outlaw by robbing the manors of the Baltic German gentry. Locked up in the prison inside Toompea Castle, he climbed out through the ceiling of his cell and let himself down the castle tower on a rope. When he was caught again, the prison built him a cell of his own, with a double ceiling, a double floor and an iron door. Newspapers of the day compared him to Rinaldo Rinaldini and Fra Diavolo. The people remembered him as the robber who took from the rich and gave to the poor.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
1856. aastal Kehtna kihelkonnas sündinud Jüri Rummost sai Eesti kuulsaim röövel, kes riisus baltisaksa aadli mõisaid. Toompea lossi vanglas istudes ronis ta kongi laest välja ja laskus köiega mööda lossitorni alla. Kui ta uuesti kinni võeti, ehitati talle eraldi kong, millel olid topeltlagi, topeltpõrand ja raudne uks. Tolleaegsed ajalehed võrdlesid teda Rinaldo Rinaldini ja Fra Diavologa. Rahva mällu jäi ta röövlina, kes võttis rikastelt ja andis vaestele.
Source: Wikipedia: Rummu Jüri; newspapers of the 1870s quoted there. ↗