EXECUTIONER RESIGNS.
PECULIAR TEMPERAMENT.
A. and N.Z.
LONDON, Mar. 19.
John Ellis, the hangman, has resigned. During his term of office ho executed 200 persons, including Crippen and Casement. He was formerly a barber, but is now a traveller.
Ellis is a sensitive, nervous man. When he kept fowls he used to ask a friend, to wring their nocks.. . ' " /
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18664, 21 March 1924, Page 9
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