In the following year "42 condemned prisoners of all religions were hanged and decapitated at Preston;" and amongst them were five belonging Preston and the neighbourhood.

Dawn would find him squatting in the corner of his dug-out sleeping as one who has sweet dreamsdreams maybe of counting the decapitated before an admiring crowd in his native city, himself again the dapper young dog of Darrapore.

Five citizens were tortured and decapitated in one day of October.

During the Chinese revolution of 1912 in Peking and Nanking, looting leaders of mobs and plundering soldiers when captured were promptly decapitated without trial.