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Roving Jack, The Pirate Hunter — page 101: what you’re looking at

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Roving Jack, The Pirate Hunter — page 101: Penny Dreadfuls, 1867

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This is an interior page of a Victorian penny dreadful titled "Roving Jack, the Pirate Hunter." The page features a wood-engraved illustration showing a ghostly female figure holding a barrel labeled "I AM THE GHOST OF POLL POTTS" confronting a seated man (Simon Smut), with a cat nearby. Below the illustration, Chapter LIII begins, describing the capture of Jack Sheppard by Jonathan Wild and other pursuers. The text recounts a violent struggle where Sheppard is overpowered and secured in handcuffs, unable to resist.

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