Show BRANDING TOOLS OF A CENTURY AGO I 4 1 r i Ir r C 1 i iI ic 4 I I II IIi c i r ry i y 1 L o I i C Cr f iiI d I r A f i tIt U I u tiThe I t The accompanying Illustration made from rom a n photograph recently tak taken n in Lancaster castle England I bears bean mute but eloquent testimony to the t t r s cruel treatment t Itt meted et out to criminals convicted of oC even slight ail often offenses ea e I In ti the t he good old times timeR of ot a n 1 century ago When n prisoner Was tins condemned he ire had t to lo n undergo branding In addition to his ile term of oC Imprisonment n Pao n meat Dud and the cruel Instruments with which tho the branding was Wall effected are yet hanging In th the dock doe OO CU of ot the tho crown court cool nt lit Lancaster castle costle The prisoners hand was WIlS locked In the holdfast as III shown shon In iii the Illustration the Jailer taking the tho long lonar n nIron hot Iron seen hanging on tho the right pressed sed tho the It to the tho prisoners thumb thum branding him with nn an M to 10 let all nil the tho world orId know that r In ho howa o w was as a m malefactor ale t nano r s n It His Is just jutt a century since this barbarous punishment was last Iut inflicted Indicted i |