On 19 December Turpin and five other men raided the home of Ambrose Skinner, a 73-year-old farmer from , leaving with an estimated £300.
The attack netted the gang just under £90.
Turpin's father was a butcher and innkeeper.
A 19th-century illustration of the raid at Loughton, as seen in the By October 1734 several in the gang had either been captured or had fled, and the remaining members moved away from poaching, raiding the home of a and named Peter Split, at.