Hanging in Chains
By Albert Hartshorne.
‘And humanity would recoil to-day with abhorrence from the actual gibbet, sensation itself would be stunned at the punishment for High Treason, the drawing and quartering of patriots, whose names may shine in history " through their tears like wrinkled pebbles in a glassy stream." It will be borne in mind that the gallows and the gibbet are the most ancient instruments of capital punishment in the world.’ NY. Cassell Publishing (1893) 160p.