THUMBSCREWS.
NEW POLICE HANDCUFFS. " BARBAROUS, ,, SAfS JUDGE. LONDON*, March 13. "A most 'barbaroi.'s instrument, and highly discreditable- We do not want a return to thumbscrews in this country." Judge Jones made these remarks at iJie Old Bailor in condemning tli.■ new police handcuffs. The police said that cog-wheels tightened the handcuffs if a prisoner struggled. Judge Jones said tlxat he understood it was an American invention. I n the present case it took more than an hour to unfasten the handcuffs. "Perhaps some people in America need torturing," he added.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 78, 1 April 1922, Page 7
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90THUMBSCREWS. Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 78, 1 April 1922, Page 7
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