Henry Fielding, the famous novelist who was also
/ |9 J/ F: n+ o6 y 26) a London magistrate, once made a night raid to two known hideouts in this city-within-a-city; he found seven men, women, and children packed away in a few tiny
; H+ _9 U3 X, X+ _ 27) stinking rooms. All of these people, included little children of five and six who were trained as pick-pockets, were wanted for crime. Conditions like these bred more criminals. One of the
& m$ d. Z" u5 I 28) typical cases was that Jack Shepard, whose execution in 1724 was watched by two hundred thousand people. Shepard, the son of honest working people, was an
+ M5 p4 a( a- q$ p; ] 29) apprentice in a respectful trade. He ran away from it because he fancied that he had been ill-treated, and soon M9 |" Y) _1 Z
30) found it was easy to make more money by thieving
7 N; \/ n: _2 p& }( W 31) as his father had done by a lifetime of honest work.
; m S+ i- ^0 o 32) In Shepard’s day highwaymen committed robberies at broad daylight, in sight of a crowd, and rode solemnly and
$ Y# z d8 ?: v$ p 33) triumphantly through the town with danger of molestation. If they were chased, twenty or thirty armed men were ready
3 q8 o3 n5 q. u: { a: I' d) l 34) to come to their assistance. Murder was a everyday affair,
/ i; [' ~+ v t" G, s! T 35) and there were many people who made heroes from the murderers.7 f8 D2 v& K% b7 Z- c4 L0 ^% T
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