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He is lying there with the back of his head beaten in garotters, of course, the police say, looking for plunder. How can you ask me to be easy in my mind about you?" She smiled reassuringly. "No harm will come to me here, I can promise you," she said. "It is you who run the most risk if you only knew it. Sir George Duncombe gave you the best advice when he tried to get you to return to England."
Didn't one of that gang of garotters that was broken up in South London a couple of months later confess to strangling him in the statement that he made before he was executed?" "Yes, and his widow is now getting ten shillings a week for life on account of that confession.
The attention of robbers and garotters is called to this fact, with the recommendation that no greater force be used than is necessary. The use of the ordinary bludgeon or slung shot would be quite needless; a gentle tap on the head with a clay pipe or a toothpick will place the victim in the proper condition to be despoiled.
A few years ago, when high feeding and sermonizing proved too much for the virtue of garotters, and, waxing fat, they not only kicked society, but danced hornpipes in hobnailed boots upon its head and stomach, even Philanthropy, at once the most fashionable and popular word of this century, was all but compromised by Sir Joshua Jebb and Sir George Grey.
The one class comprising such as prisoners who perpetrate the crime cunningly and in secret, in the firm belief that they will escape detection; the other class are the highwaymen and garotters, who go daringly and violently to work, pretty sure in their own minds that they will be clever enough to escape. With regard to the former class, the deterring influence is detection.
"Why did you not remain in London when you went out last?" "Well, these 'flimping' fellows have alarmed the Londoners so much that there is no chance of getting a living at thieving." "You mean that the garotters have spoiled your trade by making people more guarded?" "Why, man, they are wearing steel collars and carrying fire-arms."
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