PISTOL-PACKING MASKED MARAUDER who demanded “your money or your life” decision-making from coach-bound rich folk. Summary justice dished out to heroic outlaw on a regular basis, including being tied to burning wheel, hanging, disemboweling. Somehow the blaggard always survived, perhaps to do with the blaggard in question being RICHARD “MAN ABOUT ROBIN’S NEST” O’SULLIVAN.
Dick Turpin
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Glenn Aylett
January 4, 2020 at 3:05 pm
People who visit York Races might be interested to know that the Knavesmire, the site of the current racecourse, has another horsey connection, as this is where Dick Turpin was hanged.