Show famous old prison Is behind bein ts torn down famous Nemi newgate tate prison where much of london a criminal history hat ben won enacted to baing torn down though the wan erected in the eighteenth teti i tury tho th gloomy building bill til I 1 more tu mediaeval deval times and arid its graveyard arid 1 cell calls were ere veritable vault vaults in fil which the unfortunate may mat truly trilly be b sal pat I 1 to have lim been buried burtel alive TL tle destruction of newgate ha bao been bean contemplated lor for a long time unit but the actual work ork wae was not begun until the present time lecause leca uee of nu berous obstacles obo tarle on the eite alte will ill be b I 1 erected a 0 business building and anti in stead of gloomy celle filled with idle id 00 VAOL 7 ovil it 4 aj P 7 11 I 1 L the old prison now disused men awaiting death thero will ill bo be electrically tri cally lighted ollies open and anti airy and tenanted by industrious wor keri ketA the contra contrast could hardly be mo 9 complete the structure that la Is now being de ie to by no tio means the original newgate efte several prisons have mccu pled this part of 0 london the first being one ol 01 the towers of the ou oil city which wag was at the new gate of the town wall and which thus gave ita its name to the prison it wae was drat first mentioned in 1205 the building now falling before the wreckers hamn hamir ira waa was begun la in 1770 but the cordon rioters in 1780 partially dei destroyed troyed the unfinished structure newgate was then rebuilt and here were imprisoned the chief crimi criminal naila of the metropolis while those convict ed of murder were publicly executed bholi its doors when public execl alons camo came to be considered deamoral izing and evil in their efforts upon the multitude who witnessed witness pd them the murderers were exe execute cutel within the prison and burled buried beneath the paving paying of the hall leading through to tie tle old balley tula this hall was corn cow conly known is in life graveyard grai beyard those who paid the penalty of death within these grim precincts were obliterated lite rated by means of quicklime placed in their cofano but a token of their ex istance was left in the shape of an iron letter representing tiel initial of their surnames anil anti fastened in the wall over their graves of late years newgate had only been used tor for prisons prison s awaiting trial at the central criminal court building and for those there condemned to death at newgate New gate moreover moro only murderers whose crimea crimes had been committed in the metropolitan district were executed murder ers ere are hanged at wandsworth Wands worth unless otherwise ordered by the au thorit tes les it was la in 1858 1853 that the in perlor of was rebuilt on the single cell system in crowded times the prison held nearly two to hundred convicts it was out of old newgate that the notorious jack sheppard broke and the story of his escape although altho alth uh ouli it Is 1 if J I 1 14 azz V the burbal ground cow now nearly two hundred years old Is being retold by londoners at the pres ent time jack sheppard like many another criminal owed his downfall to the company of bad women ills father waa was a carpenter and a man of sterling honesty the boy waa was also sp apprenticed prentIced to a carpenter owen but he fell into the society of bad companions near by at the black ajon in drury lan lane here he met desa bess lyon I 1 yon and poll maggott who began to incite him to heft theft after many robberies of increasing boldness jael jack sheppard was captured tried and to death in old bailey dailey hut but he had beu ben with a flie file by poll It aggott end am bess lon lyon and anti he adroitly man aged to escape lilt liberty was of short duration and ten days later he was recaptured and anti placed in tho the strongest tro ogest cell of if negate New gate known as the castle here he as chained with to ponderous staples to the floor floors 1 nearly all london flocked to see bee the prisoner who despite all the cr care that was taken had secreted a small flie file in hia hill bible and a complete set pt of tools in fit the of his chair ahe guards impacted his hi chain chains on september ac 1724 and left him at 2 cluck in the afternoon for the remainder of the day lay sheppard then made hia his last and most wonderful escape after freeing himself of his manacle manacles and snapping the chains which held hold him to tho the floor he removed a stout lion bar from the chim ney and climbed up the flue after forcing several heavy bolted doors by an almot almost exertion of strength and ingenuity he found him win self upon the upper leads kut but just when hen his escape was all but accomplished the convict was a an carapelle to retract his hia steps to bli his cell to pet got hia blanket by anich ho be maht let himself down to an ait adjoin ing roof twenty feet below the re turn trip ras vas made in safety an ant 1 dral ping to the roof he entered a ear gar ret window and thence slipped tinoi served into tho the purlieu purlieus of SmIth smithfield fiel I 1 paeng 11 down oray grays s inn lane to the fields he spent two or three daye days in an old house by tottenham court live ilaya days after his escape he went to a culiar 1 by charing clogs where all wore were talking about jack parl lie hen then broke into a pawnbrokers bhoj deckel decket himself out in smart clotees and drove past newgate in a closed the next day he treated hia his mother to three terns of ot brandy and then drank himself silly at sheers tavern maypole alley in this state he waa as captured and taken back to the turnkeys despite their disgrace turned the occa plon pion to one of gain and anti charged the multitude of curious visitors as fid a head to see their capture he ile wai was watched night and day until ber her 16 when his execution was wit hessed by over persona persons at ty burn A riot which broke out over the disposal of the corpse had finally M c f 4 or 40 ma hs N WA 1 A celt to bo be quelled by jie he military with ith fixed bayonets such was the end ol 01 the career of the most notorious pris oner of newgate v |