HANGMAN’S END
ISELF-AFFLICTED FATAL WOUNDSTWO HUNDRED EXECUTIONS; LONDON, September 21. The man - Ellis, who for twentythree years has been the Public Hangman of Britain, committed suicide with a razor at Rochdale after earlier making an unsuccessful- .attempt at shooting -himself with a sporting gun. Ellis supplemented his official hangman’s income as a barber, but with little success.
i' Ellis carried ouj; two hundred executions. v Thes e included those of CripSeaiJon. Armstrong and Smith |of ther “Brides in the Bath”, case). Once Buns hanged six Irish Sinn Feiners before breakfast, butt he admitted that his most horrible experience was the hanging of Mrs Thompson in the .Bywaters case.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1932, Page 2
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108HANGMAN’S END Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1932, Page 2
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