Jack Sheppard
Jack Sheppard i Newgate fängelse
Jack Sheppard, född 1702, död 16 november 1724, var en notorisk engelsk inbrottstjuv i London under det tidiga 1700-talet. Han var känd for sina kriminella handlingar och hans försök att fly från sitt straff. Hans upprepade arresteringar blev en del av undergången for den notoriske tjuven Jonathan Wild.
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- 2007- William Harrison Ainsworth Jack Sheppard ISBN 9781604241037
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Thursday 17 September 1724: Yesterday morning the Keepers of Newgate, going into the Condemn’d-Hold to Sheppard, found two files, a chissel, and a hammer, hid in the bottom of a matter chair, with which he had begun to file his irons, who when he perceiv’d his last effort to escape thus discovered and frustrated, his wicked and obdurate heart began to relent, and he shed abundance of tears; he was carried up to an apartment call’d the Castle, in the body of the Goal, a place of equal, if not superiour strength to the Condemn’d-Hold, and there chain’d down to the floor. (The Daily Journal)
Thursday 17 September 1724: Yesterday morning the Keepers of Newgate, going into the Condemn’d-Hold to Sheppard, found two files, a chissel, and a hammer, hid in the bottom of a matter chair, with which he had begun to file his irons, who when he perceiv’d his last effort to escape thus discovered and frustrated, his wicked and obdurate heart began to relent, and he shed abundance of tears; he was carried up to an apartment call’d the Castle, in the body of the Goal, a place of equal, if not superiour strength to the Condemn’d-Hold, and there chain’d down to the floor. (The Daily Journal)