Accomplice in Dick Turpin
Highwayman partner of Turpin in 1737, remembered in legend as Tom King; died of a gunshot wound received during an attempted arrest.
1734–1739 · Essex, London and York, England · Executed
No night ride to York, no Black Bess: the real Dick Turpin was an Essex gang robber and killer, hanged at York in 1739 for stealing horses. Read the case.