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Updated: September 4, 2025
"'You are all right, Toothpick, speakin' gen'ral, says Old Man Enright, when him an' Doc Peets an' Jack Moore comes up on Toothpick to notify him it's the Stranglers' idee he'd better pack his wagons an' hit the trail, "but you don't hold your six-shooter enough in what Doc Peets yere calls 'abeyance. Without puttin' no stain on your character, it's right to say you ain't sedentary enough, an' that you-all is a heap too soon besides.
Although the stranglers are termed Phansigars, from phansee, a noose of cord, yet in practice they scarcely ever use a cord, which if it were found upon them would at once betray and convict them; they employ instead, to effect their murderous purpose, the roomal, a strip of cloth which appears innocent and harmless enough it might be a turban or a waist cloth but which in their expert and practised hands is equally effectual.
The ruling, aristocratic class, the so-called chivalry, the best element of the city, had been slapped deliberately in the face, and this by a lot of Yankee shopkeepers. The Committee were stigmatized as stranglers. They ought to be punished as murderers! They should be shot down as revolutionists! It was realized, however, that the former customary street-shooting had temporarily become unsafe.
Your berth has been taken on board the 'Ruyter; you will sail to-morrow; you will thus be safe from the malice of the Stranglers, who would follow you hither to revenge the death of their chiefs, Providence having chosen you to deliver those three great criminals to justice. Heaven will bless you! Go and wait for me at the door of the governor's house; I will introduce you.
It originated towards the end of 1874, and profited by a series of law cases, nearly all of which ended in acquittal. The Stranglers flourished especially in the Tzarevokokschaisk district, and first attained notoriety under the following circumstances. A large number of deaths by strangling had been recorded, and their frequency began to arouse suspicion.
I just lie awake nights and groan at the joints and listen to him grow old. He can't even guard our grub- pile." "The Vigilantes will put a stop to this stealing," Pierce ventured. "Think so? Who's going to keep an eye on them? Who's going to strangle the Stranglers? Chances are they're the very ones that are lifting our grub. I know these citizens' committees."
He felt that he would never again lose mastery of himself, that his passions would never best him hereafter. Dextry spoke. "We had a meeting of the 'Stranglers' last night." He always spoke of the Vigilantes in that way, because of his early Western training. "What was done?"
The man with the sallow complexion still lingered in a corner of the room, unperceived by Rodin. This man was Faringhea, the half-caste, one of the three chiefs of the Stranglers.
"And if they get too bad," said Danny, "we'll have to get the stranglers busy." "Confound it, man!" roared Dr. Rankin, beating the table, "that's just what I've been trying to tell you. You ought not to care so much for punishing as for deterring.
What became of his band of assassins his stranglers, his dacoits, his damnable poisons and insects and what-not the army of creatures " He paused, taking a drink. "You" he hesitated diffidently "searched in Egypt with Nayland Smith, did you not?" I nodded.
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