Show beheading ax unused visitors to the british home office in whitehall london still see a relic of the onto cato street conspiracy in 1820 in a beheading ax which Is 18 kept in u a 8 glucs ca cas cae e the us ax lias has never belied behead led ed anyone but it was maile to behead the conspirators the five persona so s convicted were sentenced to be be headed in the ordinary wit way y but the authorities decided to hang them first and not not take any chances the beheading was done in public immediately afterward on the scaffold it was performed with a surgeons amputating pu tating knife by a masked resurrection man who was a paid 20 guineas for his services |