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Offline Rena

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Re: 6 weeks hard labour...where would she have been sent
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 04 April 17 16:47 BST (UK) »
There's a picture of one type of treadmill hard labour on this webpage and a link at the bottom which takes you to some photos of other punishments.

http://vcp.e2bn.org/justice/page11362-types-of-punishment-hard-labour.html
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Re: 6 weeks hard labour...where would she have been sent
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 04 April 17 16:55 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Rena on Tuesday 04 April 17 16:47 BST (UK)
There's a picture of one type of treadmill hard labour on this webpage and a link at the bottom which takes you to some photos of other punishments.

http://vcp.e2bn.org/justice/page11362-types-of-punishment-hard-labour.html

Thank you - came across some of those earlier....look horrendous...would have been awful for my great great aunt as we believe she was heavily pregnant at the time and don't suppose they would have made much of an allowance for that.

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Re: 6 weeks hard labour...where would she have been sent
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 04 April 17 17:03 BST (UK) »
Perhaps they went into hiding.

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Re: 6 weeks hard labour...where would she have been sent
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 04 April 17 17:46 BST (UK) »
Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days alive.
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