A NOTED HIGHWAYYMAN.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8364, 27 February 1896, Page 2

A NOTED HIGHWAYYMAN.

Clappe ■ Duval, whowas'•■ executed Tyburn, is the inoat dramatic figure we: j of celebrated liifjhwayipeu. • Hip Dick,' pin who code the famous Blnok Bess f Loudon to York is an altogether corai ina|) to the graceful Frenqhman'who too tl(p. road as a profession, and made his ca more like a phapter, of rntpupp, da;i miniifcts on Honnslow ' Heath with aristocrats, aud then 'lightly returning'tl their gems and jewellery—never commit murder, but confining himself to "Robl under Anna," but under very different 1 ctmistanees to Captain Starlight,' whoadaj himself in Rolf Boldrewood's novel to] peculiar circumstances of Australian Hi the hush. There is some peculiar-attractiveness alj Claude. Duval, who dressed like a gentler] aud acted his part without the meaiu] the recklessness of'humau win long deliauce under hiany disgiiisea'bfj police, under that iflouster of .Jonathan Wild. ' ",'..•■" J| The gay light-heartedness with w'Jf went to the scaffold was all of a pi&'ffi his life on the roue], and altliougiS perhaps wrong to have sympathy ; wjg who did not reverence the laws of nir wg teuin, and who justly met a di tim death as unc of the outlaws of sot'BE impossibility to resist the attracti his character is just the same as tlffl possibility not to admire the quVJI Vanity Fair Cigarettes. The moretjfj smoked the more they are liked, at fa deserve the splendid reputation tb Kg secured by all judges of quality, "■ J|