. The true story book . . S-~ *«^3 £ • -^ ••- . 176 BAEON TRENCK MOST men who have escaped from prison owe their fame, not totheir flight, but to the deeds which caused their may, however, safely be asserted that few people out of his owncountry would have heard of Baron Trenck had it not been for thewonderful skill and cunning with which he managed to cut throughthe stone walls and iron bars of all his many cages. He wasborn at Konigsbergin Prussia in 1726, and entered the body-guard ofFrederic II. in 1742, when he was about sixteen. Trenck was ayoung man of good family, rich,
. The true story book . . S-~ *«^3 £ • -^ ••- . 176 BAEON TRENCK MOST men who have escaped from prison owe their fame, not totheir flight, but to the deeds which caused their may, however, safely be asserted that few people out of his owncountry would have heard of Baron Trenck had it not been for thewonderful skill and cunning with which he managed to cut throughthe stone walls and iron bars of all his many cages. He wasborn at Konigsbergin Prussia in 1726, and entered the body-guard ofFrederic II. in 1742, when he was about sixteen. Trenck was ayoung man of good family, rich, well-educated, and, according tohis own account, fond of amusement. He confesses to havingshirked his duties more than once for the sake of some pleasure,even after the War of the Austrian Succession had broken out(September 1744), and Frederic, strict though he was, had forgivenhim. It is plain from this, that the King must have consideredthat Trenck had been guilty of some deadly treachery towardshim, when in
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