garrotters

No one was stabbed, no one was kidnapped and no one took a wrong turn into the clutches of a gang of garrotters.

World Cup 2010: Sceptics drowned out by another rainbow nation miracle 2010

Even in later-nineteenth-century Britain there were epidemics of robbery by single men or by men in couples, the “garrotters” of the sixties, for example, who assaulted suddenly from behind and seized the watch and pocket-book.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

Kennedy, the new Cabinet Minister, had been garrotted, or half garrotted, and that that child of fortune, Phineas Finn, had dropped upon the scene out of heaven at the exact moment of time, had taken the two garrotters prisoners, and saved the Cabinet

Phineas Finn 2004

The Duke shook hands with him, and made a little bow, and said something about the garrotters, which Phineas, in his confusion, did not quite understand.

Phineas Finn 2004

Another unpleasant sight which reporters are now spared is the flogging of garrotters.

Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 Reid, Stuart J 1905

Any man might have formed Dickens's opinion about flogging for garrotters, and altered it afterwards.

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens 1905

The chief weapon was a stone fastened to a rather short stick something like the things gentlemen used to carry about and call life-preservers in the days of the garrotters.

The Story of the Amulet 1891

Another unpleasant sight which reporters are now spared is the flogging of garrotters.

Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 1887

The Duke shook hands with him, and made a little bow, and said something about the garrotters, which Phineas, in his confusion, did not quite understand.

Phineas Finn Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1869

No one must know that there was any reason why Phineas should not come to his house; especially as all the world knew that Phineas had protected him from the garrotters.

Phineas Finn Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1869