Joe Huggins, condemned for throttling an old gentleman, is stripped to the waist and kneeling before policemen pleading for mercy while the executioner is rolling up the sleeves of his shirt to begin with the flogging. Wood engraving by J. Swain after Sir J. Tenniel, 1872.

  • Tenniel, John, 1820-1914
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1872
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Joe Huggins, condemned for throttling an old gentleman, is stripped to the waist and kneeling before policemen pleading for mercy while the executioner is rolling up the sleeves of his shirt to begin with the flogging. Wood engraving by J. Swain after Sir J. Tenniel, 1872. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The Garrotters Act of 1863 provided the penalty of corporal punishment with the "cat" for the offence of strangling. Two years after the Act came into force the number of offences which it was specifically intended to stamp out exceeded those which occurred before the Act was introduced. Peter Alfred Taylor, Liberal Member of Parliament for Leicester, campaigned for the abolition of flogging

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[London], 1872.

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1 print : wood engraving ; image 24.5 x 18 cm

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Pity the poor garotters! Joe Huggins."O, please, Sirr, don't! Mr. Peter says as I'm delicate, and a coward, and didn't ought to be flogged!!". Mr. Bull. "Ah, indeed! your friend, Mr. Peter Taylor, should have reminded you of that before you throttled the old gentleman, let him have it soundly, warder."

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On the same sheet as a wood engraving by J. Swain after Sir J. Tenniel representing the Holy Alliance by comparing the heads of states to the witches from Shakespeare's "Macbeth"

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Wellcome Collection 43303i

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