Strangled Collection

POPE FORMOSUS
FORMOSUS, pope 891-896 A year of his death his corpse was exhumed and put on trial by his successor, Stephanus VI, who was strangled for his lack of respect Date: 897

LAOCOON AND HIS SONS
Laocoon, a priest of Apollo at Troy, is strangled, together with his sons, by serpents : this famous sculpture, probably 2nd century BC, was discovered at Rome in 1506

A Pull to Leg by George Studdy
Bonzo, the comic canine creation of George Studdy, nearly strangled himself when he winds his lead around his owners legs in an effort to pursue a fleeing cat

Bonzo the Peace-Maker by George Studdy
Bonzo the Peace-Maker -- he stops a fight and gets it in the neck from two pekingese dogs. Date: 1924

Pichegru Arrested
General Pichegru is arrested on grounds of treason : he is deported to Cayenne but will escape : returning to France he plans a royalist rising but is betrayed and strangled. Date: September 1797

Clotaires Vengeance
When Chramne, son of Clotaire I king of the Franks, rebels against his father, the king has him and his family strangled and their bodies incinerated

Monopolies Kill Commerce
Commerce is strangled by the monopolists - the coffee-ring, the spirit-ring, the copper- ring, the oil-ring

Pope Stephanus VI
POPE STEPHANUS VI (sometimes listed as Stephanus VII) arraigns his predecessor Formosus, exhumed for the purpose : he himself was later strangled

Commodus Assassinated
When the appalling emperor Commodus is strangled in his bath by Narcissus, his palace is ransacked by the populace of Rome

Commodus in the Arena
The appalling emperor Commodus slays wild animals in the arena, and is about to perform as a gladiator when he is strangled in his bath by Narcissus

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