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...Author Duff's equation is obviously wrong since the usual drop is 6 to 8 ft., and even at that distance the head may be avulsed occasionally. Paraphrasing the remark of the Queen of Hearts, I say, "off with his head" to Author Duff for accepting 19th century Hangman Berry's mathematical absurdity...
Hangmen, pleads Author Duff, are widely underrated: they are really artists. The good hangman must not only have a sharp eye and a clever touch; he must have personality and good stage presence, must feel at home with any class of people, and should be "capable of being the guide, philosopher and friend of whomsoever he must hang for us." In particular, Duff sings the praises of 19th century Hangman James Berry, who calculated precisely the length of rope needed to break the prisoner's neck with pulling the head off. Berry expressed this in a brilliant and still...
...times would have been put into a nursing home," become the "foremost man after Hitler in the German Reich?" For one thing, says Hoettl, Hitler was "an indifferent judge of men." For another, Himmler was propped up by an evil genius behind the scenes, his henchman Reinhard Heydrich, "the Hangman...
...there that Heydrich the Hangman met his death, after an assassin bombed his car on the outskirts of Prague...
...Garden, which said: "Investigation has disclosed underground streams with considerable flow just below the surface of this entire area. If you insist on being buried [here] please use a coffin of a type that will retard contamination of our well." A fortnight ago, five 25-ft. gallows, equipped with hangman's nooses, appeared on the Curtin property, looming lugubriously over the cemetery. Soon, Curtin promised, he would add realistic dummies...