Tom Ripon (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...a bench just inside the door. "By order of the Sheriff of the City of London: "1000/. reward will be paid to the person, or persons, who shall procure the lodgment, in any of His Majesty's gaols, of the body of the said Claude Duval, a convicted highwayman, who escaped from Newgate on the 20th "500Z., additional reward, is in the hands of the Sheriff, for the same, from the Viscount Chastel, who was robbed on Hounskrw Heath on the 1st inst. "5001., on the committal, as accessory to the aforesaid escape of the said Claude Duval, of either Thomas King (commonly styled Tom King-, alias ' the King of the Road'), or Richard Turpin (known as Dick Turpin, alias 'Dick the Dasher'); or 12001. for the arrest of these two by the same person or persons. "N. B.--One fourth of the above rewards will be deducted in case the above-mentioned are brought in dead., ft-For the Sheriff., .v...-- i i "R. Homper, Sec." '/;.: ..-;. i., -: ....' "Not enough," observed a baker. "You're right, Mr. Roule," chimed in a Covent Garden marketman, "right--quite right. Claude Duval is worth, at least, three thousand pounds." '"Guineas," said the baker. "Make it guineas, and I'd go off after him myself." "You looks like catching you does, old Pasty " broke in a lad. "Go home to your baking, doughhead " "'You young scamp " cried Mr. Roule, reaching his floury hand out to take the speaker by the ear; but the latter jumped back, laughing. "Here's Rowley," said the boy, appealing to the crowd, who seemed to know both him and the baker, "here's Rowley talking about bringing to town Claude Duval in his arms, and Dick Turpin and King each in one of his yeskit pockets ...