garotter

After a struggle with this infernal garotter, I succeeded in awaking myself; and as I did so, I felt a rather cold hand really resting on my throat, and quietly passed up over my chin and face.

Wylder's Hand 2003

Yet this class of prisoners are condemned, in addition to the loss of liberty and character, to live in constant contact, for years it may be, with the professional thief and house-breaker, the burglar, and the garotter, who has been frequently convicted, and whose whole life is spent between the prison and the

Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous

Nevertheless, the petty garotter -- like a toad, "ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head."

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

He was modern and morbid; hellish isolation hit and held him suddenly; anything human would have relieved the strain, if it had been only the leap of a garotter.

Alarms and Discursions 1905

The man who has graduated from the flogging block at Eton to the bench from which he sentences the garotter to be flogged is the same social product as the garotter who has been kicked by his father and cuffed by his mother until he has grown strong enough to throttle and rob the rich citizen whose money he desires.

Maxims for Revolutionists 1903

Or, in these milder times when your burglar or garotter is visited with a brief whipping, what shall we judge of the wisdom or equity of some slight fault of idleness or ignorance being visited with the Reverend Doctor's terrible sentence, “Allen, three rods, eighteen, and most severely”?

My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886

After a struggle with this infernal garotter, I succeeded in awaking myself; and as I did so, I felt a rather cold hand really resting on my throat, and quietly passed up over my chin and face.

Wylder's Hand Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

I had met with men whose whole life had been spent in constant warfare against society, and who had no other intention on regaining their liberty than to continue the struggle to the bitter end -- the murderer; cheerful and complacent over the verdict of manslaughter; the professional garotter, in whose estimation human life is of no value, troubled only at being so foolish as to be caught; the polished thief and the skilled housebreaker, every one of them sound in wind and limb, intent only on their schemes and "dodges" to extract the sting from their punishment, or in planning new and more heinous crimes, and all longing for the time when they and society could cry "quits," and they be at liberty to pursue their career of villainy.

Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous

"A burglar or garotter, or, indeed, a common thief

More Bab Ballads 1873

"A burglar or garotter, or, indeed, a common thief

Fifty "Bab" Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense 1873