NEW-YORK TRIBUNE ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT. 5 MODERN LONDON IS RAZING ONE OF THE MOST PAINFULLY INTERESTING OF ALL HER HISTORIC BUILDINGS [BARING DOWN SBWGATBL

- OLDTIME PRISON 0> SITE OF LONDON'S WILL HE A BUSTLING BUSINESS BUILDING-WHENCE "JACK" SHEPPARD ESCAPED. Prison, so much of Famous Newgate where ',—«- criminal history has been enacted, is ~ Although the present struct- vT;0~0 torn down. was erected in the eighteenth century, the banding belonged mare to medieval Jr^— and cells were toes, and its "Graveyard" itable' vaults, in which the unfortunate i.ecu- TCr have been l£. truly l>e said to burled compared V-p Newgate;, when with the old city, is found to be much like it Ton i of this and its style of 4 it? manner of construction , ,...,,. ..,.|i; Although the London "Tombs" Bphinzlifce exterior possessed .d have the the famous old prison of this city, neverthe- " it had much the same style of galleries, less yards. WJL« and The destruction of Newgate has been con- 1;lte jf,,r a me time, but the actual work time as not begun until the present because ni numerous obstacles. On the site will be -jecttJ a boEiness building, and instead of awaiting: Mnn cells filled with idle men death electrically lighted offices, there will be open and airy. anJ tenanted by industrious workers. Tbe contrast could hardly be more complete. The structure that is now being demolished is Newgate. by no means the original Several prisons have occupied this part of London, the being one of the towers of the old City, first all, which was at the new gate of the town and which thus gave its name to the prison. It was grsi mentioned in 1205. The buildingnow fall- begun \BZ l«?fore the wreckers" hammers was in partially in1770, >,\u25a0\u25a0 the Gordon rioters 1790 destroyed—the unfinished structure. m m was ../n rebuilt. a!id here were im- PRISON. prisoned the chief criminals of the metropolis. THE CENTRAL COIUTYARD OF NEWGATE publicly while those convicted of murder were its doors. When public execu- executed before Wood; but he fell into the society of bad com- a garret window, and thence slipped unobserved LOCKS OF GRANTS HAIR to be considered demoralizing and Passing down nans came panions near by. it the IMack Lion, in I»rury into the purlieus of Smithfield. the multitude who fields, or evil in their effects anon T.ane Her* be met "Bess" Lyon and "Poll" Gray's Inn Lane to the he spent two them, were executed DISCOVERED WITH AN AUTOGRAPH PHo witnessed the murderers M;ie:r..»i. who began to incite him to theft. three days in an '>I'l house i>y Tottenham <'<>urt. the prison and beneath the pav- escape be went to a wiUii^- buried After many robberies "i increasing boldness. Five days after his cellar TOGRAPH AND LETTTKR IN the hall leading through to the talking about i«g ston'S of "Jack" Shepfwird was captured, tried and sen- by Charing Cross, where all were was commonly known Sheppard. l;'Old Bailey. But he had been "Jack" !!•• then Into a 'Graveyard." paid the pen- nut in as the Those who supplied with a tile by "PoU" Maggott and broker's shop, decked himself smart Rochester. Aug. I^".. Some interesting relics grim precincts were N".-\\e;i<..- < alty of de*th within these "Bess" I.y<>n. and he adroitly managed to es- clothes and drove past in a losed car- have been discovered in thi.s city which throw placed in '!-\; Ins mother to • one obliterated by means of quicklime cape. His liberty was ••( short duration, and ten riage. The day he treated a warm and lear ii^M i>;i the chara4 ter of was him- their coffins, but a token of their existence days i.ji -r he was recaptured and placed in the three quart* ras of brandy, an.lthen drank .if ili.> great men <>f history arid revive the letter, representing Tavern, Maypole Alley. In memory rec- left in the shane of an iron strongest cell of Newgate, known as the Castle. self silly at Sheer's of an imj. rtar.t event in wartime in h<- was captured and taken back to almost forty yeara th-s' the initial of their surnames and fastened Here he was "chained with two ponderous sta- this state ords. It is now since graves. to Newgate. The turnkeys. u--spit-" their disgrace. occurrences took place, and the passage of the the wall over their ples to the floor." Nearly all London flocked "r care turned the t-> one «>f gain, and charged years !:;.:!;• s the re!i< s of almost priceless \ ilue. 0* late years Newgate had only been used .•«\u25a0•\u25a0 the prisoner, who. despite all the that occasion of curious visitors :".s. a T! • • locks ..f balr, an aut (graph prisoners awaiting trial at the Central Criminal had a small Me in his Hible tl:.' multitude Gd. head \u25a0. onsi! Iof two was taken. secreted i ighl his !.. see their capture. He was watched letti i >ii isn ill signed photograph of Gener .1 Ourt Building and for those there condemned and a complete set of tools in the rushes of moreover, mur- an.l day umii November 1'!. when his cxci vi m li;. ss< s S. Grant. t» death. At Newgate, only hair was l>y over two hundred thousand These "human were liscoven 1 derers »ho.<- crinus had been committed in the The guards inspected bis haij on September witnessed documents" Tyburn. A ii"t which broke out lay by the former City Auditor, A. \u25a0- metropolitan disti i;I were executed. Trans- l?, 17:M. and lefl him at "_' o'clock in the after- persons at the other .iv.-r the disposal of the corpse had finally to 1-- M nn, while he was searching In an ..!•! d'-slv for pontine murderers are hang*»d at Wand* worth noon for the remainder of the day. Sheppard quelled by the military with baj papera of importance. They were care- ordered by \u25a0 escape. fixed some Jail, unless otherwise the authori- then made his last and n Iwonderful naost -*•* snap- Su^-h v :i> the end of the career of the iu>- fully Inclosed In a heavy envelope, and 111 1 ties It v"as in IS-"»S that the interior of New- Atit-r frc iiii; himself of his manacles and prisoner of Newgate. been placed .safe keeping by Mr. .\1 nn gate was rebuilt on the single cell system. In ping the chains which l;e. although it is now nearly two hundred upon the ui»i»-r leads. years oil, is being retold by I^ondoners at the I'.ut. just when his escape waa all but accom- present time. "Jack" Sheppard. like many an- plished, the convict was compelled to retrace other criminal, owed his downfall to the com- his steps i'» Ma cell to pet his blanket, by which pany of bad women. His father was a car- he might let himself down to an adjoining roof pent and a man of sterling honesty. The boy twenty feet below. The return trip was made dropping roof, iras also apprenticed to a carpenter. Owen in safety, and. to the he entered

PORTRAIT OF GENERAL GRANT. .signature aM CAKXiriNC OUT THE GALLOWS FROM NEWGATE. Taken In Chaitanooga In ISO. now owned by A. S. Mann, of Rochester. Grant- own neat ft. Preparatory to sulllngthe »rl3on i^wa.