Newgate Prison, London: a man's shirt is being laid over his shoulders by a prison warder after he has been flogged by a man with a cat o'nine tails. Wood engraving, 1872.

Garrot: "To throttle (a person) in order to rob him" (Oxford English dictionary). The visit of the Graphic journalist and artist to the prison is described in The graphic, loc. cit. They encountered two men who had just been flogged for robbery with violence (Matthews and Smith), saw the cat o'nine tails that had been used to lacerate them, and saw "the flogging block represented in our engraving. There are two holes on each side for the arms, the inermost being used for boys when they are birched, the other for men when they are flogged. One of us was triced up to the horrid machine just to try the effect, and found it impossible to move. ..." -- The graphic, loc. cit.