Sheppard, Jack, 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).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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