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Sheppard, Jack
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
A notorious criminal, whose audacious robberies and daring escapes from Newgate Prison made him for a time the terror and talk of London; drew some 200,000 people to witness his execution at Tyburn; figures as the hero of a well-known novel by Harrison Ainsworth (1702-1724).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Sheppard, Jack'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/sheppard-jack.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.