Inhuman torture!! Fairburn's edition of the trial of Thomas Picton, late Governor of Trinidad and Colonel of the 54th Regiment of Foot, for torturing Louisa Calderon in the island of Trinidad in the month of December, 1801 ... Which was tried at the Court of King's-Bench, Westminster on Monday, Feb. 24, 1806 before Lord Ellenborough & a special jury / Taken in short-hand.
- Thomas Picton
- Date:
- [1806?]
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Credit: Inhuman torture!! Fairburn's edition of the trial of Thomas Picton, late Governor of Trinidad and Colonel of the 54th Regiment of Foot, for torturing Louisa Calderon in the island of Trinidad in the month of December, 1801 ... Which was tried at the Court of King's-Bench, Westminster on Monday, Feb. 24, 1806 before Lord Ellenborough & a special jury / Taken in short-hand. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![11 parent on your person ?— A. On my wrists there are, but none on my feet. [The witness now exposed the seam or callus, formed on her wrists in consequence of the torture.] To some questions, on the cross-examination by Mr. Dallas* she said, that she did not know how long she had been re¬ leased before she was brought over; that she came with Co¬ lonel Fullarton, and that she -had been maintained by Mr. White, of the Treasury. Don Rafael Chandos, sworn, (assisted by the interpreter) said, that he w7as an Alguazil, in the island of Trinidad, in the year 1801 ; that he returned from the interior of the country on the 22d of December, and saw Louisa Calderon in gaol; that they were then giving her a glass of water, after bringing her down from the torture. She was supporting herself on a table; it was about seven o’clock in the evening. Beggorat desired witness to bring Carlos up, and told her, that she must repeat to Carlos what she had said to him. After this interview, at which nothing transpired, she was instantly put in the grilles, and in the same room in which she had suffered the torture. The apartment was like a garret, with sloping sides, and the gri/los were so placed, that, by the lowness of the room, she could by no means raise herself up during the eight months of her confinement. On the 23d of December she was again put to the torture, between eleven and twelve in the morning, and she remaiued in this situation twenty-two minutes by the watch. [The witness here examined the drawing, and described the positipn much in the way it had been before represented, and then added:] She fainted twice in his arms. Beggorat sent vinegar to the executioner, to administer to her in this situation. There was no advocate appointed to attend on her behalf, and no Surgeon to assist her. No one but a negro belonging to Bullo the gaoler, to pull the rope. As soon as she was taken down she was put into the grilles. The witness had seen her sister bring her victuals, but never noticed the admission of her sister or her friend into the gaol. The witness had been four or five years in the post of Alguazil. He never knew the torture inflicted in the Island until the arrival of the Di¬](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30377638_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
