Highway Robbery
07/15/22 • 35 min
Derek and David talk about the crime of highway robbery in Victorian London. In their talk we find about the crimes of the highway man of Bethnal Green who was the final person executed at Tyburn in 1783.
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Derek and David talk about the crime of highway robbery in Victorian London. In their talk we find about the crimes of the highway man of Bethnal Green who was the final person executed at Tyburn in 1783.
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