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 was apprehended by means of an ale-house boy, who had accidentally seen him Jaek was then drunk, and being unable to make any resistance, was more conveyed to Newgate.

On the 10th of November he was carried to the King's Bench Bar at Westminster, where the record of his conviction being read, and an affidavit made that he was the same John Sheppard mentioned in that record Mr Justice Power awarded sentence of death against him, and a rule of court was made for his exeeution on the Monday following.

The day came, but Jaek lad still some hopes of eluding justice. Somebody had furnished him with a pen-knife; this he put in his pocket with the point upwards, and as he told, one whom he thought he could trust, his design was. to lean forward in the eart, and cut asunder the eord that tied his hands together, and that when he came to Little Turnstile, to throw himself over among the crowd, and run through the narrow passage where the officers could not follow him on horseback, but must be