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An encampment was formed in Hyde Park, about 1714. See also the Life of Jonathan Wild, subsequently related. The Life of the Famous JOHN SHEPHERD, Footpad, Housebreaker and Prison-breaker Amongst the prodigies of ingenious wickedness and artful mischief which have surprised the world in our time, perhaps none has made so great a noise as John Shepherd, the malefactor of whom we are now to speak.
So after recommending to the minister by letter, to inform his aged mother in Germany of his unhappy fate, he requested the executioner to put him to death as easily as he could. He then submitted to his fate on the 4th of April, 1724, being in the forty-fifth year of his age. The Life of PETER CURTIS, a Housebreaker, etc.
Sumfit was observing to Rhoda, "you might carry the box and who would have guessed how stout it was, and me to hit it with a poker and not break it, I couldn't, nor get a single one through the slit; the sight I was, with a poker in my hand! I do declare I felt azactly like a housebreaker; and no soul to notice what you carries. Where you hear the gold, my dear, go so" Mrs.
Then came threats, threats that made Ludwig fairly shudder, though he continued to bind and tie with redoubled energy. "Hold up, mynheer housebreaker," said Van Mounen in a warning voice. "That knife is very near your throat. If you make the captain nervous, there is no telling what may happen." The robber took the hint, and fell into a sullen silence.
I found it contain a greater number of circumstances than could have been expected in this species of publication, I was equalled to the most notorious housebreaker in the art of penetrating through walls and doors, and to the most accomplished swindler in plausibleness, duplicity, and disguise. The hand-bill which Larkins had first brought to us upon the forest was printed at length.
The Life of JOSEPH MIDDLETON, Housebreaker and Thief Amongst the numbers of unhappy wretches who perish at the gallows, most pity seems due to those who, pressed by want and necessity, commit in the bitter exigence of starving, some illegal act purely to support life.
He could think of no bad object to be attained by sending him to Sikes, which would not be equally well answered by his remaining with Fagin; and after meditating for a long time, concluded that he had been selected to perform some ordinary menial offices for the housebreaker, until another boy, better suited for his purpose could be engaged.
The Venetian blind, half drawn up, was five or six inches higher one side than the other, and a vase of faded flowers added to the forlornness of the picture. In his present state of mind the faded blooms seemed particularly appropriate, and suddenly determining to possess them, he walked up the steps and knocked at the door, trembling like a young housebreaker over his first job.
But this empire of the imagination is beaten hollow in Java, where it is supposed that a housebreaker, by throwing a handful of earth upon the beds of the inmates, completely incapacitates them from moving to save their property. And this is no mere speculative belief, but an actual fact.
'Your breakfast is ready, sir, whispered Bella, after greeting him with a hug, 'and all you have to do, is, to eat it up and drink it up, and escape. How do you feel, Pa? 'To the best of my judgement, like a housebreaker new to the business, my dear, who can't make himself quite comfortable till he is off the premises.
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