Stephen Magee

Not much can be said about... [the romanticized highway man who terrorized the streets of London in the 18th century] that isn't heavily tainted by rumour and paste. We do know however that the chistian name of the outlaw extraordinaire, "Jack Half-A-Prayer" was Stephen Leslie Magee.

Apperntly Jack Half-A-Prayer didn;t sound like a "sissy's name"... [according to his personal diaries.] Mounted on his noble steed, Lightning, he was known to target the upper class, mostly in carriages as they traveled across the Exeter Moors.

Perhaps the most famous account of Half-A-Prayer comes from the personal journals of Madame Melinda May Manchester who had a brief but torrid affair with him in a filth spattered haystack. She described him as "sensitive for a rapist".

Although it was rumored that Stephen Magee was finally caught by Scotland Yard and executed in 1795, current speculation shows that Stephen "Jack Half-A-Prayer" Magee may actually be alive and well and living in Argentina.
-From Oddities of the 18th centuy by Sir Hanson Poplan