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Show TORTURE RELICS ON SALE Such Instruments ns Drunknrd's Cloak, Iron 3oot nnd Foot Squ; 'Tcrcd. Several toriu. ( n-cre put up for miction nt Stevens', C vent Garden, the other day, but they tllil not excite much competition. There were no eager calls, evrn for a hangman's rope. A paltry 7s. was alt that was Riven for one which had been used by the renowned Horry , says the London Dally News. An Iron screw, or foot queczcr, was toiiRht for and Hi same figure was paid for a r.ot of double stocks, and also for what Is tern d a "drunkard's "drunk-ard's cloak." The last named Is ono of those Instruments In-struments of old which was Intended to put the delinquent to shame. It Is shaped like n huge pall and the drunkard drunk-ard who was to be disgraced was fastened fas-tened Into It with only Ms head visible vis-ible through a narrow nrertttro at the top. The cloak gavo the wearer tho minimum of room, tho hands being rractlcally pinned to th sides, and walking was only possible In a kind of shuffling movement. Other articles sold wert an ancient vhlpplng poat with shpp''-s from Oxford, Ox-ford, two sets of shackles vhtch wero used In old Newgate prison, ancient branding Irons and an Iron "boot," Into which tho victim's naked foot was placed and boiling o'i poured In. all of which sold at 12 shillings each. An ancient chair from the castle of Norenburg, in which peoplo wcro secured se-cured for torture, fetched 18 shillings, shil-lings, and an Iron tortuto collar with spikes, 21 shillings. |