THE GENTLE METHODS OF EARLY DAYS
LEG-IRONS AND CAT 0’ NINE TAILS FROM RUTLAND STOCKADE (Special to THE SUN.') WANGANUI, To-day. Leg-irons and other exhibits from the old Rutland Stockade, discovered recently at Wanganui Gaol, will be placed in the Wanganui Bay of the new museum. The leg-irons are small compared with those used at Port Arthur, the Tasmanian convict settlement in 1853, the latter weighing 291 b. The unfortunate convict had to work in these in the quarries. They were rivetted on and remained on the victim’s legs till he died. One of these exhibits in the museum e shows the centre links well worn 1 through friction with stone in the ' quarries. The leg-irons used at the Rutland Stockade were also rivetted on, but were, apparently, only used in the , cells. ’ Another exhibit in the collection is 1 a “cat o’ nine tails” made of whips cord, knotted at the ends. The handle, 3 which is fairly heavy, is covered with . fabric so as to be nice and soft for the warders’ hands. But the other end, as may be imagined, was by no means I soft for the poor fellow flogged.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 62, 4 June 1927, Page 16
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194THE GENTLE METHODS OF EARLY DAYS Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 62, 4 June 1927, Page 16
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