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Rigid wrist restraint for Lewis Thornton Powell
This is a famous picture of Lewis Thornton Powell, who was one of the people arrested after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865:
This is an early police mugshot of Powell (also known as Lewis Paine or Payne), who was one of the people put on trial and later executed for taking part in the conspiracy to kill the 16th president of the United States. What I like about this picture, of course, is the rigid wrist restraint he’s locked in.
According to the website A Little Touch Of History, strict security measures were put in to place during the trial, including the use of canvas hoods for the prisoners, to prevent them from talking with each other.
During the trial, the Military Governor showed compassion towards the prisoners and said the inmates who wore the canvas hoods could be allowed to take them off — EXCEPT for Powell, because “The hood didn’t seem to bother him as much as the others.”
Powell and George Atzerodt were also reportedly restrained with a ball and chain, although I was not able to find pictures of the ball and chain.
Here are more pictures of the restraints, and a shot of Powell just before the execution:
Dream Boy Bondage
Rank and a rubber bondage prisoner
To see lots more of Rank and his captives, join Serious Male Bondage
Stress position bondage
Artwork by Herodotus
Apparently all the Thumblogger sites are down
It appears that ALL of the Thumblogger sites — including Metalbond’s OLD site (the “classic” version if this page) and the popular Mr Kristofer bondage blog, and many other sites — are down.
I don’t know what happened, nor do I have any way of finding out, since they have zero customer service over at Thumblogger, which was one of the reasons I paid money to have my site redesigned and professionally hosted last year.
So, for now and possibly forever, the “Archives” tab here on Metalbond won’t work. (But don’t worry, I have it all the old contents saved on hard drives.)
I will update you guys when I learn more.
Oh, and for all of you who have been emailing and IM’ing me about Mr Kristofer’s site, you’ll want to click for his Tumblr page.
Handcuffed men of the day
