No one was disposed to make another attempt to handcuff the captive, and the little detachment set out, headed by the prisoner, who had much more the appearance of a leader than did any one of the crestfallen group behind him.
At any rate, a few trenchant questions brought out the fact that Friedrich had resisted only when an attempt was made to handcuff him.
Alas, the handcuff upon the left hand was too narrow to be removed in this way.
But why didn't you handcuffthis sport to a roof stanchion inside?
This gent is the Wells Fargo detective," replied Racey, indicating the man who had helped him handcuff McFluke.
Jimmie Dale stooped quickly, and snapped the other link of the handcuff over the unconscious man's right wrist.
The broken handcuff went jerking and jumping around her as she ran.
At the first crack of the stone on the handcuff I could feel the old iron weaken.
The left wrist was enclosed in a light rusted handcuff to which a chain was fastened.
Why should any one put one handcuff on a woman and leave the other dangling?
But I give you fair warning that if you attempt to put a handcuff on my wrist again I will smash you.
Well, then, handcuffthem together, and I will send one of the company over to Welland with them.
I do not object in the least to the handcuffs; and, if you are dying to handcuff somebody, handcuff me.
He speedily gave the order to Stoliker to handcuff the prisoner to himself, and deliver him to the jailer at Welland.
The steel band of the handcuff nipped the wrist of Stoliker, who, with an oath and a cry of pain, instinctively grasped the links between with his right hand, to save his wrist.
The bugles sounded for the troops to fall in, and Stoliker very reluctantly attached one clasp of the handcuff around his own left wrist, while he snapped the other on the right wrist of Yates, who embarrassed him with kindly assistance.
As he comes in I will throw my arms round him and you will at once close in, one on each side, each catch an arm tightly, handcuff him, and take the pistols from his belt.
He then unlocked the padlock, which was passed through a chain which held the handcuff which was round the man's ankle, and released him.
A single trooper, camping out through a stretch of thinly-inhabited pastoral country, has been compelled to handcuff himself to the prisoner nightly for his better safeguarding.
A white mark, which slowly changed to red, showed where Delaney had clamped the handcuff down to its last notch.
Drew wound the handcuff chain tighter about his left wrist.
He really was an astonishing good sort, though he had been implacable on the handcuff question.
This" meant that a handcuff was snapped round my right wrist, and its fellow, connected with it by a chain, round Harris's left.
You can thenhandcuff me and put me in your strongest cell, and after you have searched me and the cell you leave me, locking the door.
The "Handcuff King" was glad evidently of the rest for his knees, for he pulled it through into the "ghost house.
The handcuff king examined it carefully, while a group of persons looked on.
A hearty burst of applause greeted the journalist as he stepped into the arena and shook hands with the "Handcuff King.
Here began the experiences that quickly ripened Houdini into the World's Handcuff King and Prison Breaker, which he is, has been and always will be.
Accounts of thrilling jail-breaking feats are pasted beside stirring chronicling of handcuff escapes.
Harry Houdini, the international Prison Breaker and Handcuff King, as he is styled, was the hero of a sensational exploit.
But the strain had been too much for the "Handcuff King," and he sobbed as though his heart would break.
Another officer approached, and the first one requested him to handcuffhis prisoner.
After a short consultation the two officers concluded to gratify their prisoner, and, without attempting to handcuff him, they conducted him from the depot to the police station.
I would have let you take me, handcuff me, anything, for I understand, but he does not.
You leave at daylight, and bring him in, if you have to handcuff him to do it.
When Seminole was once out of his house the detective undertook to handcuff him.
The scoundrels were as quiet as mice the rest of the way, and the journey to Denver was devoid of further incident, except that soon after the little matter referred to one of the thieves had complained that his handcuff hurt him.
He left Clayton, and, as if seeking to make delays, went and spoke to the constables, and then threatened to handcuff the dealer if he did not quietly submit.
A fresh din broke out on the ringing of the bell on the following morning, and neither governor nor chaplain could permanently allay the tumult; the governor determined thereupon to handcuff all the turbulent males immediately.
If it was necessary to handcuff Miss Burns to the bars of her cell, we consider her well enough to appear," declared Mr. O'Brien.
They were putting the handcuffs on him--they had one handcuff on one hand and they were trying to find the other one, and they were having difficulty in locating it because there were so many hands there.
They were all in on the struggle, and Officer Hawkins, in other words, he simultaneously, we decided to handcuff him.
