garotters

It was even suggested that the scene with the garotters had been cunningly planned by Phineas Finn, that he might in this way be able to restrain the anger of the husband of the lady whom he loved.

Phineas Redux 2004

Then he spoke of the life-preserver, and gave a rather long account of the manner in which Phineas Finn had once taken two garotters prisoner in the street.

Phineas Redux 2004

He had carried the life-preserver now produced with him because it had once before been necessary for him to attack garotters in the street.

Phineas Redux 2004

Was it not known that Mr Kennedy himself had been as it were coerced into quiescence by the singular fact that he had been saved from garotters in the street by the opportune interference of Phineas

Phineas Redux 2004

Loughton had been conferred upon Phineas chiefly on account of his prowess in extricating Mr Kennedy from the garotters — respecting which circumstance it may be said that as the meeting in the street was fortuitous, the reward was greater than the occasion seemed to require.

Phineas Redux 2004

It had been bought about a month since — in consequence of some commotion about garotters which had just then taken place.

Phineas Redux 2004

Laurence Fitzgibbon says that it was all planned — that the garotters were hired, but unfortunately two policemen turned up at the moment, so the men were taken.

Phineas Redux 2004

Phineas Finn had himself been once engaged with garotters — as has been told in a former chronicle — and had since armed himself, thinking more probably of the thing which he had happened to see than men do who had only heard of it.

Phineas Redux 2004

The one class comprising such as prisoners who perpetrate the crime cunningly and in secret, in the firm belief that they will escape detection; the other class are the highwaymen and garotters, who go daringly and violently to work, pretty sure in their own minds that they will be clever enough to escape.

Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous

"You mean that the garotters have spoiled your trade by making people more guarded?"

Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous