Dick Turpin 7 May, he committed two highway robberies near Epping. Turpin may also have lost his mount; on 7 May Elizabeth King, the wife of Turpin's accomplice, attempted to secure two horses left by Matthew King, at an inn called the Red Lion. The horses were suspected as belonging to "highwaymen" and Elizabeth King was arrested for questioning, but she was later released without charge. Morris's killing unleashed a flood of Turpin reports, and a reward of £200 was offered for his capture. Sometime around June 1737 Turpin boarded at the Ferry Inn at Brough, under the alias of John Palmer
Claude B. Duval once asked a woman whose husband he had just robbed to dance with him. Claude B. Duval Papers, MS.00202, Archives and Special Collections, Ellender Memorial Library, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, La. Chauvin Funeral Home, Houma, Louisiana, obituary information on Claude B. Duval Claude B. Duval Claude Berwick Duval, I (October 24, 1914 – March 3, 1986), was an attorney from his native Houma, Louisiana, and a Conservative Democrat state senator from Terrebonne and St. Mary parishes, having served from 1968 to 1980. He is best known for his profound oratory, his accommodation of Senate colleagues, his unsuccessful 1963-1964 campaign for