turpin in A Sentence

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Turpin wants to see you.

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Jimmy Turpin was always active and athletic, but never ate healthy.

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Credit goes to Mr. Philippe Turpin who took these amazing photographs.

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Photo credit goes to Mr. Philippe Turpin who took these wonderful photographs.

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Turpin later became more directly involved with the group when they moved from poaching to robbing dozens of people of their livelihoods.

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In truth, whether Turpin shot the cockerel to eat or just because he was annoyed isn't really clear from contemporary reports from the time.

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Had he at this point turned himself into a law-abiding citizen, Turpin likely would have gotten away with the countless nefarious exploits of his youth.

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All we know for sure is that the owner of the cockerel was understandably a little angry at Turpin and confronted him for the shooting.

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Or maybe Turpin really did have quite distinct hand-writing, or distinct enough that with other suspicions Smith was able to put two and two together.

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As the fates would have it, the executioner who ended up hanging Turpin just so happened to be one of his old partners in crime, Thomas Hadfield.

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However, old habits die hard and to fund his new life, Turpin would often travel across the river from Yorkshire to nearby Lincolnshire to steal sheep and horses.

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Under questioning, Turpin stuck to his story and claimed he was a down on his luck butcher from Lincolnshire called John Palmer, who now dealt in horse trading.

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While awaiting his execution, Turpin's infamy as a highwayman saw him become one of York prison's most famous residents with people coming from all around to see him.

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Turpin, rather than profusely apologising or offering to pay for the animal or something like that, instead decided it would be best to threaten to kill those rebuking him;

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Unfortunately for Turpin, Pompr took one look at the handwriting on the cover of the letter and refused to pay the postage fee, supposedly stating, he“had no correspondent at York”.

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After discovering that, indeed, the letter did appear to be from Turpin and it had been sent from York Prison, Smith traveled to York, fingered Turpin, and collected his reward.

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She was one of two of the children, both now in college, who appeared in court to offer testimony about how they suffered at the hands of their parents, David and Louise Turpin.

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When the Justices of the Peace questioning Turpin asked their colleagues in Lincolnshire if they would ever heard of John Palmer, they replied that they had, as he had spent approximately nine months there.

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As fate would have it, the postmaster in Saffron Walden was none other than James Smith, the man who would taught Turpin to read and write at the village school some two decades before.

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Others speculate Rivernall knew that the letter was from Turpin and simply refused to pay because he was either tired of being associated with his wife's brother or scared of getting involved in his affairs.

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Supposedly the guard outside of his cell made a small fortune charging people to visit Turpin, some of whom were reportedly women who wanted to get to know the bad-boy Turpin in a rather intimate fashion.

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Although Turpin was seemingly caught because of his evidently distinctive handwriting, no known example of it has survived, meaning we actually have no real idea how Turpin's former schoolmaster was able to recognise it after two decades.

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However, the event that really sealed Turpin's fate is when he shot a man's cockerel supposedly after a failed hunt in 1738 resulted in a frustrated and drunken Turpin deciding to take his aggression out on the cock.

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Rather than go out begging for his life, Turpin spent some of his ill-gotten funds to purchase a fine set of clothes to wear to his execution, as well as hired a group of mourners to follow him to the gallows.

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Growing increasingly desperate for character references that likely would have seen him walk free(the hard evidence against him was scant concerning the horse theft), Turpin penned a letter to his brother-in-law, Pompr Rivernall(married to Turpin's sister, Dorothy), in the hopes of getting such references.

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At his trial, Turpin noted that he wasn't given enough time to prepare a proper defence for himself and that he would been told the trial would take place in Essex, not York, and so hadn't bothered to get witnesses in his defence to come to York.

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Whatever the case, though the evidence against Turpin concerning the horses he allegedly stole was scant, now that the locals knew he was the famed highwaymen, any chance of him getting off from lack of evidence went away and he was tried and convicted on several counts of horse theft.

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After this, Turpin attempted to hide from the law by assuming the identity John Palmer and absconding from the London area, eventually finding his way to a small town in Yorkshire bordering the river Humber called Brough, presenting himself as a down-on-his-luck butcher who now made a living as a horse trader.

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Compared to the ruthless Turpin, Nevison was practically a gentlemen who, while still very much a scoundrel compared to more law abiding citizens, specialized in robbing the rich(which makes sense because, well, they have a lot more money than the poor), rarely used violence and was often astonishingly polite to many he stole from.

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