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His robbing the Shop of Mr. Bains in White-Horse-Yard of 24 Yards of Fustian. Of hisbreaking and entering the House of the said Mr. Bains, and stealing in Goods andMoney to the Value of 20 l. Of his robbing the House of Mr. Charles in May Fair ofMoney, Rings, Plate, &c to the Value of 30 l. Of his robbing the House of Mrs. Cook in Clare-Market, along with his pretended Wife, and his Brother, to the Value of between50 and 60 l. Of his breaking the Shop of Mr. Philips in Drury-Lane, with thesame Persons, and stealing Goods of small Value. Of his entering the House of Mr.Carter, a Mathematical Instrument Maker in Wytch Street, along with Anthony Lamband Charles Grace, and robbing of Mr. Barton, a Master Taylor who lodged therein,of Goods and Bonds to the Value of near 300 l. Of his breaking and entering theHouse of Mr. Kneebone, a Woollen-Draper, near the New Church in the Strand, inCompany of Joseph Blake alias Blewskin and William Field, and stealing Goods to theValue of near 50 l. Of his robbing of Mr. Pargiter on the Highway near the Turnpike,on the Road Hampstead, along with the said Blewskin. Of his robbing a Lady's Womanin her Mistress's Coach on the same Road. Of his robbing also a Stage Coach, with thesaid Blewskin, on the Hampstead Road. Likewise of his breaking the Shop of Mr. Martinin Fleet-street, and stealing 3 silver Watches of 15 l. Value.
ALSO—
A particular Account of his rescuing his pretended Wife from St. Giles's Round House.Of the wonderful Escape himself made from the said Round-House. Of the miraculousEscape he and his said pretended Wife made together from New-Prison, on the 25th ofMay last. Of his surprizing Escape from the Condemn'd Hold of Newgate on the 31stof August: Together with the true manner of his being retaken; and of his Behaviourin Newgate, till the most astonishing, and never to be forgotten Escape he made fromthence, in the Night of the 15th of October. The Whole taken from the most authentickAccounts, as the Informations of divers Justices of the Peace, the several Shop-keepersabove-mentioned, the principal Officers of Newgate and New Prison, and from theConfession of Sheppard made to the Rev. Mr. Wagstaff, who officiated for the Ordinaryat Newgate.
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