DEATH BY SUICIDE.
Former British Hangman Takes His Own Life. CAREER OF JOHN ELLIS. LONDON, September 21. The public hangman, John Ellis, who held the post for 23 years, committed suicide with a razor at Rochdale after an earlier unsuccessful attempt to ehoot himself with a sporting gun. He had supplemented his official income as a barber, but with little success. The 200 executions carried out byEllis included those of Crippen, Seddon, Armstrong and Smith of the brides in the bath case. Ellis once hanged six Sinn Feiners before breakfast, but he admitted that his most horrible experience was the hanging of Mrs. Thompson in conncction with x the Bywaters case.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 225, 22 September 1932, Page 7
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111DEATH BY SUICIDE. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 225, 22 September 1932, Page 7
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