... hissing or applause. I was to undertake what is called responsible basi- ness, from the Gravedigger to Hamlet. Mr Sinclair gave me agood deal of his abuse. I absented myself from the Iheatre es thi second Saturday. Mr Sinclair said I was worse than an amateur ...

... It shows. bow John Jones began at twelve years of age by stealing, say, a book from a stall; how, at fourteen, under the name of , Smithson, he advanced to robbery from the person ; how, at sixteen, he got, as 4Ma Der- 7ote, to -robbery with violence; ...