John Ellis, the British hangman, has resigned. He executed over two hundred people, including the notorious Crippen and Sir Roger Casement, the Irish rebel. Ellis was formerly a barber, and is now a traveller for blankets. He is a sensitive and nervous man. who' when he kept fowls, had to get a friend to wring their nooks.— Sy.n.nv “Sun” Cable. The British Shipbuilding Employers’ Federation threaten a national lockout unless a. speedy settlement is reached with the unofficial strike of engineers at who are demanding an increase of 17s. 6d. a week to bring them into line with the London dock workers. The federation has summoned full joint meetings at Carlisle for March ,20. —Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 152, 21 March 1924, Page 7
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