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 themselves in a strong well-guarded cell, and loaded with irons of about 14 pounds weight, but being supplied with implements by some of his friends, our hero set to work, and about two o'clock in the morning effected a breach in the wall. Sheppard then fastened a sheet and blanket to the bars, and having filed off his fetters, he lowered the female safely to the ground. This done he descended himself, but they still had a wall of twenty-two feet high to scale before their liberty was perfected. Sheppard however, was not unprepared to surmount this difficulty: he had his gimblets and piercers, and in a short time a scaling ladder was made, with which he mounted with Bess, and in less than ten minutes they once more found themselves at liberty.

But Jack was not warned by his troubles, for directly afterwards he returned to his late master's neighbourhood in Wych Street, where he concerted measures with one Anthony Lamb,-an apprentice to Mr Carter, -a mathematical instrument maker, for robbing Mr. Burton, a tailor, who lodged in Carter's house; Charles Grace, a cooper, joined them in the robbery, and on the