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 fetched a blanket which he used to lie upon. With the assistance of this, he dropped down upon the turner's house, and at that moment the clock of St. Sepulchre's struck nine. Luckily the trap door happened to be open; he crept in, and went softly down stairs, when he heard company talking in a room below. His irons giving a clink, a woman started and said, “Lord, what noise is that?” Somebody answered, “the dog or cat.” Thereupon Sheppard returned to the garret, and having continued there for two hours, he ventured down a second time, when he heard a gentleman take leave of the company and saw the maid light him down stairs. As soon as the maid had come back and shut the room door, he hastened down to the street door, unlocked it, and made his escape about 12 o'clock at night.

A few days after his escape, Sheppard broke open a shop in Monmouth Street, and stole some wearing apparel. On the 29th of October, he broke into Robert Rawlins, a pawnbroker in Drury Lane, from whence he took a sword, a suit of clothes,