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Hey Atame, check out thsi site,

http://www.bladerealms.com/Law_Enforcem ... uffs.shtml

Written and Illustrated by Inspector Maurice Moser, Late of the Criminal Investigation Department, Great Scotland Yard
The Strand Magazine, Vol. VII. 1894, pp 94-98

Nice picture of the thumbscrews like you have.

Ian

An even better place to read the Moser article is at:

http://www.handcuffs.org/strand_1894/index.html

The other site simply stole my posting and my scans of the pictures.

Joe

Hey Atame, check out thsi site,

http://www.bladerealms.com/Law_Enforcem ... uffs.shtml

Written and Illustrated by Inspector Maurice Moser, Late of the Criminal Investigation Department, Great Scotland Yard
The Strand Magazine, Vol. VII. 1894, pp 94-98

Nice picture of the thumbscrews like you have.

Ian

Dear Joe,

I do not know where you first found Moser's "Handcuffs" article. Regardless of where, it is an important component of the Handcuffs.org site.

The entire Strand issue of January 1894, i.e., Volume VII, Issue 37, was put online as an e-book on 8 November 2003 by The Project Gutenberg. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, a non-profit organisation, is performing an important public service.

The Moser article itself is at http://gutenberg.teleglobe.net/1/0/0/2/ ... 37s12.html. The issue's table of contents, with links to the articles it comprises, is at http://gutenberg.teleglobe.net/1/0/0/2/ ... 0020-h.htm. One very interesting article, albeit unrelated to restraints, is "The Signatures of Charles Dickens (with Portraits)".

The Moser article contains a wealth of information, much of it obscure yet enlightening, revealing and useful, certain inaccuracies notwithstanding.

Cheers,

Jack

Hey Atame, check out thsi site,

http://www.bladerealms.com/Law_Enforcem ... uffs.shtml

Written and Illustrated by Inspector Maurice Moser, Late of the Criminal Investigation Department, Great Scotland Yard
The Strand Magazine, Vol. VII. 1894, pp 94-98

Nice picture of the thumbscrews like you have.

Ian

Hello all,

thank you, Ian, for reminding me of the article, which I have read right after Joe put it on his site, but I have forgotten that Thumb Bagnos are mentioned there.

Nevertheless the description "The Mexican handcuff (Nos. 8 and 9) is a cumbersome and awkward article, quite worthy of the retrograde country of its origin." is IMHO not correct, because No. 9, the Thumb Bagno, is most probably of French not Mexican origin. "La Poucette", standing below the picture, looks quite French to me and not Spain .

Regards,
Guenter aka Atame

Hey Atame, check out thsi site,

http://www.bladerealms.com/Law_Enforcem ... uffs.shtml

Written and Illustrated by Inspector Maurice Moser, Late of the Criminal Investigation Department, Great Scotland Yard
The Strand Magazine, Vol. VII. 1894, pp 94-98

Nice picture of the thumbscrews like you have.

Ian

Dear Günter,

You have cited one of the "certain inaccuracies" in Moser's article to which I referred. Moser's colourfully pejorative description is typical of 19th Century -- and earlier -- British writers. La Poucette is French, not Spanish, wording, although that titbit failed to deter Moser.

Cheers,

Jack

Hey Atame, check out thsi site,

http://www.bladerealms.com/Law_Enforcem ... uffs.shtml

Written and Illustrated by Inspector Maurice Moser, Late of the Criminal Investigation Department, Great Scotland Yard
The Strand Magazine, Vol. VII. 1894, pp 94-98

Nice picture of the thumbscrews like you have.

Ian

Another one is the reference to cop's. I was told by someone who did some research that cop stands for Constable On Patrol.

-Dorson

Hey Atame, check out thsi site,

http://www.bladerealms.com/Law_Enforcem ... uffs.shtml

Written and Illustrated by Inspector Maurice Moser, Late of the Criminal Investigation Department, Great Scotland Yard
The Strand Magazine, Vol. VII. 1894, pp 94-98

Nice picture of the thumbscrews like you have.

Ian

Hello,

There is a difference between research and guesswork. Cop long has been accepted, incorrectly, as an acronym for Constable On Patrol. Might as well be Crime Of Passion or Come On Peacefully. Whatever sounds too good to be true almost always is.

Cheers,

Jack

Hey Atame, check out thsi site,

http://www.bladerealms.com/Law_Enforcem ... uffs.shtml

Written and Illustrated by Inspector Maurice Moser, Late of the Criminal Investigation Department, Great Scotland Yard
The Strand Magazine, Vol. VII. 1894, pp 94-98

Nice picture of the thumbscrews like you have.

Ian

Jack

I have a bound copy of the 1894 Strand magazine. It is indeed full of all sorts of interesting things.

I have no real problem with someone copying the article from my site, since the article is in the public domain, however he also stole my main site picture. What I consider the "logo" of handcuffs.org

Joe

Hey Atame, check out thsi site,

http://www.bladerealms.com/Law_Enforcem ... uffs.shtml

Written and Illustrated by Inspector Maurice Moser, Late of the Criminal Investigation Department, Great Scotland Yard
The Strand Magazine, Vol. VII. 1894, pp 94-98

Nice picture of the thumbscrews like you have.

Ian

Hey Guys,
I have never even heard that cop stood for Constable On Patrol, I have always been taught the nickname came from the metal used in the first issued badges, copper, and thus the men wearing evolved into "cops".....
History is such an enthralling subject and it is always fun to see what others, especially in other parts of the world, have heard of origins.
Tim

Hey Atame, check out thsi site,

http://www.bladerealms.com/Law_Enforcem ... uffs.shtml

Written and Illustrated by Inspector Maurice Moser, Late of the Criminal Investigation Department, Great Scotland Yard
The Strand Magazine, Vol. VII. 1894, pp 94-98

Nice picture of the thumbscrews like you have.

Ian

Hi. There is another origin for the word COPS that I know of. I grew up in the Detroit area and knew that the Detroit Police Dept. was about the first public safety agency in the country to use radio-equipped patrol cars. They had small wooden beams across the top of the cars on which the antennae was attached. They looked pretty much like phone poles on wheels. The call letters to the station radio was K.O.P. I am not sure which came first, "Cops" or "K.O.P.s". I do not know the exact date that the radios were first used but they were in place in the very early 20's at the latest. I am not sure when the term "COPS" came to be. It is possible that the call letters were selected if "COPS" was already in use. Most police history books refer to the COPper badge theory.

Incidentally, the city also had the first concrete road in the country. It was 1 mile long when finished in 1909.
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