... A PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE. A RUSSIAN DICK TURPIN. A notorious robber, named Kriwusz, who for months has terrorised several districts and committed numerous murders, has at last been arrested. says a IVarsaw correspondent. Ite•ently he waylaid a carriage in ...

... portions were removed of a famous old eln► which was• known to all lovers of Blackheath and the surrounding country as Dick Turpin's Tree. Tradition goes that tl►e famous highwayman used to ambush his victims under the gigantic branches of this elm. In ...

... acted till recently in Cornwall. but here the Dragon and the King of Egypt were added to the characters, and also Giant- Turpin, and the saint fights with the monster instead of the Turkish Knight. The main characteristics of the Christmas: mumming ...

... ironclad bushranger, as he was termed, who, with his celebrated steed, Wren Polo, is we!! known at the Antipodes as Dick Turpin and Black Bess. Kelly commenced his career of crime abort 1875 and devised for himself a truly wonderful snit of bullet-proof ...

... miles around. Before Holvwell Street and Wych Street were demolisf►ed one of the old houses was shown as a resort of Dick Turpin. Jack Shepherd. Sweeny Todd, and other noted criminals. The old places certainly had a number of curious secret chambers in ...

... dictionary for many words which were familia • to their fathers as boys. For example. if you asked any boy (not a reader of Dick Turpin, by the way) what a turnpike gate meant he might not. be able to tell you. Very few Pikes remain now in England except ...

... a- Government is passing. but wished thing- to g from bad to worse until they brought on a dis.l-- tons revolution. Eugene Turpin, an expert on neunces that he has di4covered a method rendering torpedoes ineffective. thereby rem ing the dangers of doatiue ...