Jack Sheppard
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John Sheppard, nicknamed "Honest Jack", "Gentleman Jack" or "Jack the Lad", was an English criminal who became notorious in early 18th-century London.
Chalk and pencil sketch of Sheppard in Newgate Prison, attributed to Sir James Thornhill, c. 1723
An engraving of Wych Street, from about 1870
Jack used a rope of knotted bedclothes to lower Bess during their escape from the New Prison in Clerkenwell.
Poster for the play Jack Sheppard performed at the Royal Lyceum Theatre.
Jonathan Wild
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Jonathan Wild, also spelled Wilde, was an English thief-taker and a major figure in London's criminal underworld, notable for operating on both sides of the law, posing as a public-spirited vigilante
Jack Sheppard
…caught, convicted, and hanged at Tyburn, ending his brief criminal career after less than two years. The inability of the notorious "Thief-Taker General" Jonathan Wild to control Sheppard, and injuries suffered by Wild at the hands of Sheppard's colleague Joseph "Blueskin" Blake, resulted in Wild's demise as a criminal…
Vignette of Wild from Old England by Charles Knight, p. 326
A gallows ticket to view the hanging of Jonathan Wild