WEBVTT - Classic RC: Tonight There's Gonna Be a Jail Break: Two Escaper Boys 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.720 Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:11.479 Hello, producer Dave Interns did go to voicemail. We have 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:14.320 to change the outgoing message from something other than just 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:16.200 the sound of a truck backing up. 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:17.000 Listen. 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:20.239 We got caught again. The resort boys ran a pit 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:22.720 maneuver on us on a country road and we flipped 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:26.200 the airport shuttle. We're okay, We're okay, but they've taken 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:28.800 us to a black site and an abandoned red roof 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:33.320 in this place is dismal bleak. There's no HBO or 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:36.280 MAX or whatever they're calling it. Now. We're gonna bust 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:39.839 out tonight. We've been collecting bed sheets, tearing them into strips, 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.840 braiding and weaving them like the ancients of the York. 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:46.400 We have a really elaborate rope ladder built. I wanted 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:48.720 to die in a fun color with some fruit punch 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.640 crystal light in the bathtub from mustash. I keep in 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.120 my shoe, But zaren say, we don't have time for 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:56.319 the so we won't be in today, but. 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:59.120 We should know the sweet taste of freedom. 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:02.080 Very soon, and an action next week. In the meantime, 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:04.840 remember that guy in Engram A long time Ago who 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:08.039 escaped from jail a lot? Can you run that episode 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.800 as inspiration for us? Appreciate you doing. 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:17.039 Zaren Burnette. 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.080 Yo, Elizabeth Dutton, what's up, Claude? 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:20.680 Not much? How are you doing today? 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:22.960 Doing pretty well? Doing pretty well? Thanks for asking? How 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:23.240 are you? 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.840 I'm great as always. I'm just scurvat so happy to 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.959 hear that. Listen. You know it's ridiculous. Yes, I do 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:30.920 give it to me. 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.959 Okay, Elizabeth, all right, I'm not I want to preface this. 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:35.880 I'm not making fun of the front part. I'm making 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.600 part of the back part. Okay. Last year, there's this 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:42.520 news story about this guy, Christian Montenegro okay, and he 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:47.480 married a rag doll. Like not, that's not I'm not 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:52.200 casting aspersions on this person. No, no, like his wife, 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:56.440 Natalia is a rag doll, and uh, he broke up 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:58.720 with his ex girlfriend, right, And so then he started 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.880 dating Natalia, the rag doll, And then he decided, well, 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:03.640 I'm happy with her. We can make a good life 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.080 of this. So then he got married to the rag doll. 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.960 And people are like this, this is not not right. 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.400 People are like, no, no, he's it's fine. So they're debating, right, Anyway. 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:14.600 This is the part that it gets me because I 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.800 don't whatever you've been marry what bridge, marry a building out? Okay, Right. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.880 There was a video last year of him going to 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.600 the doctors in which he's called paramedics because he was 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.320 worried that his rag doll had fallen. Ill. Now keep 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.520 in mind they have three rag doll children, so he 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:33.720 was worried he was going to be a single rag 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:35.880 doll father to their rag doll kiss. 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:40.200 Where where is this? 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.079 And it goes long enough that I do not think 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.720 it's a prank. I have to believe that this is 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.680 a compulsion. It is into South America. Why are you 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:49.239 being like, what does it matter where he is? 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:50.880 I want to go down there and slap them. 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.760 It takes place in the land of magical realism. 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:58.720 Colombia, Oh, Colombia, Oh, Columbia. So there you go, ridiculous, right, 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:05.160 and spark three guess what three things ridiculous? 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:07.200 Three rag doll kids, a rag doll wife. You know, 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.320 when he gets sick, he goes to a people a 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.200 people hospital, Elizabeth, I need to go to a rag 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:13.000 doll hospital. 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:15.320 I'm a progressive. Where is the. 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.600 Fine taking a rag doll to a human hospital. It's 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:22.000 like taking me to a vent that we come on, 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:23.959 do you want to save your wife or not? 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:26.880 Because we got the cops on her tail. 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:29.760 That's why that I recommend it. 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:31.080 I'm not going to be like, you know, if he 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:32.280 wants to love ad No. 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:39.760 Three or something, I think we can afford another conversation. 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:41.360 He sewed another kid. 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:43.520 You don't get to do that kind of like, come on, now, 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:49.440 come on now, that is ridiculous. That's ridiculous. Do you 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:51.440 know what else is ridiculous? No, but I'm here for it, 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.800 escaping and then escaping and then escaping some more. 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:56.120 I like the spirit. 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:21.679 This is ridiculous crime A podcast about absurd and outrageous capers. 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:25.159 Heycin Cuns. It's always ninety nine percent murder free and 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.360 one hundred percent ridiculous. 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:28.479 Note you heard that. 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.400 You've talked about escape artists before. 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:33.920 Once or twice. Yes, I'm a fan. 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.359 Those who break out of lock up and make it 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:37.480 an absolute art. 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.400 Yes, a statement, multiple attempts. 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:43.440 A commentary on man's isolation amid the masses and desperate 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.839 need for liberation. You know something high falutine like that 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.040 that talk. I like that you focused on more recent 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:51.480 ridiculous escapermen. 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:53.919 Yes, and the ridiculousness of the artist. 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:57.240 A postmodern analysis completely. I want to take us back. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.680 You heard I want to take his way back. Hey, 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.800 I got two ogs for you to Oh wow, oh geez, 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:09.680 all right, let's start in the seventeen hundred. This is 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:14.279 like you starting everything going back to Dracula. Dracula. 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.719 I'm always yeah, like when memed the second could have 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.240 killed Dracula, Draca could have killed second goes back to 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.599 the second and then he failed. Yeah, I glad Paler 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.880 failed to kill Memod the second. You get America, that's 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:27.799 when you're. 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:31.320 Like, what caused the Cuban missile crisis? You're like, well, okay, well. 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.480 It starts with me, you know, the second in the 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.760 Fall of Constantinople in fourteen fifty three. 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:39.120 Now every time, so I'm taking to the seventeen hundreds, 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:43.520 and I'm not going to mangle any French or Italian pronunciations. 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:44.440 Oh man. 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.280 Not because I've worked hard on my diction and my focus. No, 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.400 it's because there aren't any nice hoorah. Okay, So the 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.840 first dude is a fellow named Jack Shepherd. I can 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:57.480 say that nice. You got that Jack Shepherds. Now I'm 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:02.360 gonna screw hard. He's known as the eighteenth century's most 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:06.440 notorious robber and thief. That's saying a lot. Is it 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:09.520 purely in his home country of England, likely because he 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.880 wasn't a global phenom, kind of a highwayman. Not really, 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.719 you'll see, okay. He was also referred to as the 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.240 most glamorous rogue in London. 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.920 One of those kind of guy glamours ar yes, m 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.800 a jigglow with deep pockets. He drops things in. 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.680 He was born. He was born on March fourth? Yes, 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.080 did you ever when when I was in high school 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.760 we used to say to the nuns that he'd raise 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:34.880 your hand and be like, what's today's date, and they'd 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.240 say March fourth, and we'd all get up and walk forward. 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.240 You're making that up. He did not really do that, 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:42.880 Did you guys actually get up out of your seats? 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.279 You really did? Multiple kids? 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.720 Yeah, just one time, one March wow. And then we 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.080 looked at each other and we're like, oh God, I love. 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.480 That for you know, do you actually have that? That's 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:56.960 so precious and dear? He was, but this was March forth, 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:03.039 Oh wow, coming back, mourning, coming back. 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:07.680 Well, it's like better than when May the fourth, when 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:12.640 people do the hell no, no, no, March fourth. So 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:18.240 his family was terribly poor. They lived in Spittlefields in 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:22.200 London in the east endeld Well know. The location gets 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.560 its name from the fact that many of the original 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:31.160 inhabitants had both poorly formed dentician and severe allergies. I 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.680 don't leading them. Well, no, it led them to like 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:41.040 produce abnormally large quantities of saliva, and those were expelled 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.960 as they yelled at outsiders who crossed the area's large 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:44.640 open meadow. 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:50.120 Thus Spittlefields, the pollen rich meadow, the gas in their 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:51.440 teeth and they yelled. 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:52.880 At And you think this is funny? 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:54.480 Do you think this is funny. 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.720 Because it's not true. The land actually belonged to Saint 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:02.080 Mary's Spittle, a hospital built in eleven ninety seven. Yeah, 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.920 so spittle is a corruption of the word hospital. Okay, 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:07.680 but I think my explanation is way better. 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.640 Oh yeah, I told so much better. So they dropped 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:10.920 the hoe and made spittle. 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:15.640 Yeah, drop the hoe. Okay, So an earlier name for 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:19.240 the area was Lallsworth. Lol, like laugh out loud. You 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.840 did not you made It's true that's true. So in 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:26.320 Jack Shepherd's time, it was an area notorious for highwaymen, 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:30.600 as you said, bad men, yes, and prostitutes and so 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.120 Jack he stayed away from all that. When he was 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:36.720 fifteen he got an apprenticeship with a carpenter. Five years later, 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.679 he's twenty years old. Because I can do math, and 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.679 I also had to be hooked on phonics. He was 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:46.240 an accomplished craftsman, of course, twenty years old. He was 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:47.000 a small fellow. 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:47.760 They don't have TV. 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:51.240 No, he was all the time in the world. He 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:52.960 was too poor for it. Everyone else had it. 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:54.839 I was on your candle light. You can be working, kid. 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:59.880 He was a litland. He was five four spine bone slight. 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.560 But he had like this dazzling smile. He didn't have 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:08.080 the Spittlefields dentician. He had a dazzling smile and a 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:12.040 magnetic personality, and so that made him really popular in 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:14.839 the neighborhood, especially in the pubs. And it was in 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.320 those taverns that he fell in with the wrong crowd, 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:24.520 the shady underbelly of Spittlefields. And so most notably was 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:32.160 a prostitute named Elizabeth Lyon aka Edgeworth. Best Edgeworth, Edgeworth, 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:36.560 Bestka District. Best. Best was a big, beautiful mama whole 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.800 lot of ros, very popular with the fellas and Jack 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:45.960 was sprung hubba hubba. And so the more time and 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:48.840 money he spent with Best, the deeper into that dark 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:53.320 side of things. He got. Lots of drinking, lots of carousing. Yeah, 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:55.440 this wasn't good for woodworkings. 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.400 Are no will be selling his tools? 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.960 Yeah? Well, as a one time man of the train, 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.160 you know that you have to be able to focus 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:04.160 and show up on time and get the work done. 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:05.840 Oh yeah, and you have to have your tools. 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:08.160 You can't send things just you can't like send things 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.880 to voicemail and ignore the inbox. So his income took 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.280 a dip and he wasn't getting the work he once 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:16.920 was because he was spending all this money on booze 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.280 and on the Best. Yeah, and so he had to 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:22.640 make ends meet. He needed cash. He started stealing. In 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.240 the spring of seventeen twenty three, he got busted for 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.400 the first time shoplifting. 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:28.200 Taking other people's tools. 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.400 Shoplifters of the world unite and takeover, he yelled, Did 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.720 he really that's no, that's a Smith's lyric. 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.120 Oh, I thought they pulled it from him, like it's 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:37.079 an old British story. 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.960 I just have never heard he had. He was spinall 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:43.760 over the I'm not going to believe anything. So soon 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.760 enough he starts hanging out with a very bad ombre 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:51.920 named Joseph Blake aka Blueskin. 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.480 William Blake's little brother, Blueskin. Are you kidding me? 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.120 No, one's really sure how he got that name. 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.000 Colloidal silver, that's how he got that name. 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.520 He had like a really swarthy complexion. He was also blue, 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:06.360 super hairy, Okay, especially in the facial region. So maybe 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.120 that was it. This is what they're speculating. Some thought 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:10.880 maybe had a port wine birthmark. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.000 Okay, maybe more sense. 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:14.240 He could have been part smurf. 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:20.640 That's I'm going with that one. From the waist down, okay, 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.319 like a mermaid or something. You know, it's like fish 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.680 for the waist down, he's Smurf. From the waist down, Blueskin. 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:27.800 Some of he doesn't wear pants a lot because everyone 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:28.440 can see. 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:36.080 Okay, well I thought his feet he can't. Yeah, his legs, 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:38.040 they see his ankles. They go, they go out, they 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:38.760 go all the way up. 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:45.959 Blueskin. He shows Jack Shepherd the ropes takes him from 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:49.400 an amateur shoplifter to a professional thief. He's good at it, 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:50.880 but he's also not good at it. 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:55.920 He was an interesting line there, professional thief amateur SHOPLIFTERA 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:57.960 when someone else pays you enough, you. 0:11:58.040 --> 0:11:59.400 Get you get sponsorships. 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.600 Okay, there your factory riders exactly. 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:06.240 So he gets arrested and imprisoned five times between seventeen 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:12.320 twenty three and seventeen twenty four. Of those five arrests, 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:16.320 he got out four times. The poor folks in Spittlefields 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.080 loved this, of course they loved it. They had no 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:23.120 TV Cairo, they had no TV. The rich people intown did. 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.520 So let's take a look at his first escape. Seventeen 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:30.880 twenty three. He got sent to Saint Anne's Roundhouse for pickpocketing. 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:33.080 That's where they invented the roundhouse. 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:34.800 They had the roundhouse just for. 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:36.200 Pickpocket It's where they invented it. 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:37.560 Like all the cut pursons go here. 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:41.240 Yeah, Bess came to visit him, and that was a 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.160 bad idea because the jailers recognized her as a lady 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.240 of the night and then she gets arrested. No, it's 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:49.760 just in some position. Yeah, she wasn't out. I think 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.400 she had like warrants. And so she and Jack they're 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:56.120 sent together to new prison in Clerkenwell, and it was 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.600 there that they were locked in a cell known as 0:12:58.720 --> 0:12:59.600 the newgate Ward. 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:00.920 Okay, I think I've heard it. 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:06.400 Yeah, somehow Jack gets a hold of a file these things. Yeah, 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:08.800 and so the couple they'd only been locked up overnight, 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:10.920 but it was too much for Jack. He's like, I 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.520 can't take this with Jack, he filed his way through 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.120 his shackles. Then he used the file to gouge a 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.800 hole in the wall right under the window, Not like 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:20.440 a big hole that went all the way through, just 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.000 one that like was placed as such that he could 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.000 loosen one of the iron bars that blocked the wi 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.960 window and wiggle it out of place. So they got 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:31.600 the window open. Bess and Jack tied sheets and blankets 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:33.960 together and did the old cliche rope out of the 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:37.040 window escape. They lowered themselves to the ground and then 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.680 they climbed over a twenty two foot high wall. Wow, freedom, 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.960 how are you going to do that? They did it 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:46.040 twenty twenty two feet. 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:47.960 If they're standing on one shoulder and you get one up, 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:49.400 the other one has to pull the other one. 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:53.120 Five ft four. She's a she's. 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:54.400 A big lady. Yeah. 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:55.360 I don't know how they did it. 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:59.880 She threw them over and rope back over. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:01.880 Let's say that's how it happened, right, let me just 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:03.760 say it. I'm going to go ahead and say it. 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:05.720 Said she threw him over the wall. 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:06.319 I like it. 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.840 I like that wrote back over exactly. 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:11.920 She climbed up, and she's got a baby. 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:13.240 They went imprisoned. No more. 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.400 That's a lot of filing too, and that you ever 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:16.400 tried to file through metal? 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.160 Can we just say cute couple alerts? Oh my god, 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:20.360 I had a jail together. 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:21.960 Oh dude, ship them forever. 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:27.600 Seventeen twenty four. A year later, Jack's twenty two. He 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:31.760 was still on his thieving bs. He gets caught. He 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.840 was convicted of burglary and sentenced to death. It seems 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.640 like a lot for theft. Yeah, So back to Newgate. 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:38.560 What did he steal? 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.760 I don't know. He stole the Declaration of Independence before 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.280 it was written. The cell for the condemned at Newgate 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.600 was at the end of a dark passage, and to 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:49.400 get to the passage you had to go through this 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.640 hatch that was like ringed with huge iron spikes. 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:53.360 Are you kidding? 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:58.960 No, that's August thirtieth, seventeen twenty four. Jack filed away 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.440 at one of the spikes so that with a little 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.200 push it would just snap right off. Okay, he got 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.920 it almost through, and once again Bess comes to visit 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.360 nice and I'm guessing she didn't have warrants this time, 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:13.440 just like I'm good, and she brought the rope, and 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.560 then she brought another prostitute with her, a gal named 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:23.720 Mal Maggot, mall maggot, m o l l oh mall 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:27.840 like Molly Maggot. Okay, And now I'm not of that world, 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.160 but I would imagine that's not a name that drums 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:31.080 up a lot of business. 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.920 It depends very specific type of business. Maybe she's like 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.000 going for the goth guys and she wants them to know, like. 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:40.480 Perhaps you know a dead girl. Oh be sick. Okay, 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.600 So Bess and Mal they waltzen to visit Jack on 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:47.480 death Row, and they managed to distract the guard. How okay, 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:51.400 magic trick, I you know, I can't imagine how. And 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:55.240 so while the guard was otherwise occupied, Jack snapped off 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.720 the spike and then he was able to squeeze through 0:15:57.720 --> 0:15:59.360 the space and make a break for it, and the 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:01.680 girls helped him run off, and then they all went 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:07.360 together bag at time magot so. But he only tasted 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.120 freedom for a couple months then he gets locked up. 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.760 His last escape was his most famous one. It was 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:16.120 October fifteenth, seventeen twenty four, and there's a lot of 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:19.880 footage of the escape available online. Keep doing that, you know. 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.640 So the location was once again Newgate Prison. The jailers 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.000 cuffed him while he was in the cell, hoping that 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:30.000 would prevent him from getting out. Sometimes with cheese with 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:35.160 he just always rope like loosely woven hemp rope. So 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.160 at some point he managed to get his thin wrists 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.720 out of the shackles, and then he pulled a loose 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:44.120 nail out of the wall, which is why maintenance is important. 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.840 Important things. Yeah, broken window, I'm telling you. 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.200 So he used the nail to pick the lock on 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.920 the chain that connected his ankle to the floor, and 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:54.840 then he used the nail to pick the lock on 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:58.800 the door. Yes, And then he used the nail to 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:00.920 pick the lock in the area outside the block where 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.200 he was kept, and then another lock and another lot. 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:05.760 This is like the TV shows I watched like The Musketeers, 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:09.040 Like this is so escape plane, totally get a nail, 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:10.280 work it out of something. 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:11.800 You know. He's on the roof of the prison. I 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:16.240 love he still had a shackle around his ankle. Oh oh, 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:18.200 I forgot And then he's like, oh, man, I forgot something. 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.679 So he runs back to the cell and he grabs 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:21.240 a blanket. 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:22.760 He breaks back into the prison. 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.440 Where's the staff? Where's the staff? Anyway, he runs back 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:28.639 up to the roof with the blanket and he uses 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:31.840 it to slide over to the roof next door, and 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.119 then he pops into a top floor window. This place 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:38.200 was someone's helm, okay, and snuck around and then out 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.679 the front door. And he waited until the morning, and 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.320 he went to a cobbler. Smart so being the local 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.760 folk here. Yeah, well, he was able to convince the 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.119 collbler to cut off the leg. Iron I feel like 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.480 I would have gone to a blacksmith, but like you know, any. 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:53.120 Port tools, they got similar tools. 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.920 So he swanned around for two weeks just partying it up, 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.680 and then the law caught up with him and when 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:00.359 they went to make to get out of the oh, 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.240 they went to arrest him dude was hammered. What Yeah, 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.840 he was wasted, so he didn't run, he didn't resist, 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:12.200 he's just all how dry Jack. Of course, he gets arrested, 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:16.000 he's convicted, and once again sends to death. I told 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:16.960 you he was a folk hero. 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:17.440 Yes. 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:20.000 When it was time to take him to the gallows, 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:23.800 the road leading there was lined with women crying and 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:28.080 like wailing and throwing flowers at his fee. Ladies man 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:31.640 to the end. You know. Daniel Dafoe, author of Robinson Cruiser, 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:35.560 not personally, but yes, big fan of Jack's. Earlier in 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:39.199 the year, Jack Shepherd had written an autobiography, what a 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:42.480 narrative of all the robbery's escapes, et cetera of John Shepherd. 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.280 That was his book, except Jack didn't write it. Daniel 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:51.959 Dafoe did. Yeah. They're pals called Ghost Road Book. Yeah so, 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:55.879 and they were such pals that Daniel Dafoe and his 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:58.719 publisher came up with a plan to wait fifteen minutes 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:01.679 after Jack got the rope and then grabbed the body, 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.520 and they wanted to revive him, which they heard had 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:05.480 worked a couple of times. 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:07.560 Yeah, back then, sometimes hangings you'd hear about this. 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:09.640 It's the old equival of like one hack. They don't 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:11.960 want you to know, like you can wait fifteen minutes. 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.959 Well sometimes next Yeah, my cousin knows a guy who 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:17.920 knows a guy who brought a handman back to life. 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:19.560 That kind of thing totally works. They saw it on 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:23.200 the hit ABC show nine one ps nine one one 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.800 got even campier after moving from Fox to ABC. It's 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.680 amazing and I love it, but I don't watch TV anyway. Jack, 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:34.000 he didn't make it, and Daniel Dafoe is unsuccessful. This 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:37.280 is like my one percent where it's murdered by the state. Yeah, 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:40.159 it's up for debate anyway, Rip to that man. Plays 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:43.439 were written about Jack and performed after his death. In 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:46.880 eighteen forty, William Harrison Ainsworth wrote a novel called Jack 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:50.120 Shepherd and it was crazy popular, and the authorities didn't 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:52.879 care for that, so much so that they refused to 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:55.440 license any plays in London with Jack Sheppard in a 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:59.000 title for forty years after the publication. That takes it 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.920 to one hundred and fifty year years after his damn Yeah, 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:03.240 let's take a break, dude. 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:05.720 Wait before we take a break, Harry Styles, get on this. 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:07.960 You can get back from Timothy shallow May all the 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:10.359