Quick as thought he fitted handcuffs on him, and all struggles and devices were now of no avail.

Having established this remote and honourable antiquity, we are not surprised at the appearance of handcuffs in the fourth century B.C., when the soldiers of a conquering Greek army found among the baggage of the routed Carthaginians several chariots full of handcuffs, which had been held ready in confident anticipation of a great victory and a multitude of prisoners.

] No. 11 is another handcuff of foreign make, and is merely used when a raid is about to be made, as it allows to a certain extent the use of the hands.

She took the handcuffs from her roll-on bag and closed them on his wrists.

M. Daru was arrested in his own house; the Fourth Vice-President, the illustrious General Bedeau, had been seized that morning in his bed, and handcuffed like a robber.

It was being said, for instance, that two Generals of the Second Army had been marched through their troops in handcuffs under a guard of Carabinieri.

Expert thieves have been known to open handcuffs without a key, by means of knocking the part containing the spring on a stone or hard substance.

He was first interrogated at the Petit Luxembourg, and afterwards conducted handcuffed to Versailles, where three mouths after he was tried by court-martial and sentenced to military degradation and death.]

In the case of atavistic criminality, prevention does not mean handcuffing of the man who is about to commit a crime, but devising such economic and educational measures in the family and administration as will eliminate the causes of crime or attenuate them, precisely because punishment is less effective than prevention.

In Belgium the use of handcuffs by police officers is entirely forbidden.

Does a prisoner charged with murder or other high crime remain in handcuffs during his trial?

Think of your Generals arrested, taken by the collar by galley sergeants and thrown handcuffed into robbers' cells!

" Which the deputy promptly proceeded to do by snapping a pair of handcuffs round the thick McFluke wrists.

So he took a pair of handcuffs with him as a preparation for the enterprise.

[Illustration: NO. 10."LA CORDE."] No. 10 shows an effective method of handcuffing in emergencies.

She smiled and closed the handcuffs around his wrists.