Dick Maybury, aged nine, 1840
My Story: Dodger!
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Summary:
In 1840, Dick Maybury arrives in London with nowhere to stay, no money and no friends. A chance meeting with the Adelphi gang gives him all three. But the gang makes their living outside the law and Dick learns that, once begun, the life of a pickpocket is very hard to leave behind...
- It is a real story based on a boy named Dick Kenton, who got angry with his family and ran away to London on a coach from Shrewsbury, renaming himself as Dick Maybury.
- Dick joined many gangs and went to jail 5 times, doing all these before he turned eighteen. Once, he dodged away from big punishments by using stolen money to hire a lawyer to speak for him in court, and in the end was sentenced to 6 months of jail in the Westminster Bridewell prison in London.
- After committing so many crimes, Dick changed, from a bad-charactered guy to a good-charactered guy.
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