Highway Robbery
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Alias ‘Galloping Dick’
The man now most closely associated with Jerry Abershawe was Richard Ferguson Born in either Herefordshire or Hertfordshire, sources differ; sometime in the 1770s, Ferguson earned a reputation as a juvenile delinquent as a young man, leading a gang of teenage boys in myriad criminal activities. Richard’s father was employed as a gentleman’s servant and, consequently, Continue reading
