Henry Fielding, the famous novelist who was also a London magistrate, once made a night raid to 【M1】 ______. two known hideouts in this city-within-a-city; he found seven men, women, and children packed away in a few tiny stinking rooms. All of these people, included little children of five and 【M2】 ______. six who were trained as pick-pockets, were wanted for crime. Conditions like these bred more criminals. One of the typical cases was that Jack Shepard, 【M3】 ______. whose execution in 1724 was watched by two hundred thousand people. Shepard, the son of honest working people, was an apprentice in a respectful trade, he ran away from it because 【M4】 ______. he fancied that he had been ill-treated, and soon found it was easy to make more 【M5】 ______. money by thieving as his father had done 【M6】 ______. by a lifetime of honest work. In Shepard’s day highwaymen committed robberies at broad daylight, in sight 【M7】 ______. of a crowd, and rode solemnly and triumphantly through the town with danger of molestation. 【M8】 ______. If they were chased, twenty or thirty armed men were ready to come to their assistance. Murder was a everyday affair, 【M9】 ______. and there were many people who made heroes from the murderers. 【M10】 ______. 【M1】