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#OTD in 1944 – Charlie Kerins was hanged in Mountjoy Gaol by the English hangman Albert Pierrepoint.
#OTD in 1944 – Charlie Kerins was hanged in Mountjoy Gaol by the English hangman Albert Pierrepoint.
‘All I ask is that the ideals and principles for which I am about to die for will be kept alive until the Irish Republic is finally enthroned’. –Charlie Kerins
When the serial killer of Rillington Place, John Christie, complained that his nose itched after his arms had been bound, Albert Pierrepoint assured him: “It won’t bother you for long.” And it didn’t. Between the day he joined “the family…
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Reginald Woolmington, saved from the rope by a ‘Golden Thread.’
When farm labourer and killer Reginald Woolmington entered the dock at Taunton Assizes it was with a heavy heart. The shotgun killing of his estranged wife Violet at her mother’s home on December 10, 1934 looked like an open and shut case. She had left him because of his possessive, controlling and abusive treatment of her. He had stolen a shotgun from his employer, that much had been proved. So…
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The History of a London Bohemian Pub, that gave its name to an area of the West End - Part Two.
The second part of the 2015 interview when Nick Hennegan talks again to the late Sally Fiber about her time growing up in one of the most famous literary pubs in London in the company of Walter Sickert, Augustus John, Jacob Epstein, Nina Hamnett, Dylan Thomas, George Orwell and Tommy Cooper to name but a few! And her memories of Britain’s last Official Hangman, Albert Pierrepoint!
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Albert Pierrepoint - Britain's Last Hangman [Podcast with Transcript for Study]
Albert Pierrepoint – Britain’s Last Hangman [Podcast with Transcript for Study]
https://www.italki.com/en/post/53zbSza5tQJCQF6twDiBHI
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Over the course of 25 years, Albert Pierrepoint killed between 435 and 600 people, with his last being in 1956. He was Britain's most prolific hangman, and in late 1945 he was brought to Germany with a specific task: Executing Nazis.
A private man, both Albert's father and uncle had been hangmen before him, and over the course of his career he killed a variety of people, conventional criminals, serial killers (plus an innocent man a serial killer had framed for his crimes), and spies.
He didn't particularly like advertising his side-gig as someone who killed people on behalf of the state (for obvious reasons), but due to his reputation for efficiency (anecdotally he would figure out in his head the length of rope required to kill someone as quickly and relatively as possible just by eye) General Sir Bernard Montgomery, one of the senior figures in the British armed forces during WWII announced his involvement to the press.
Arriving in Germany, Albert was first assigned the task of executing the captured Nazi war criminals that had been operating the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camps, including such people as the 22 year old Irma Grese, nicknamed Hyena of Auschwitz by her victims. He hanged the women individually, the men he hanged in pairs. Reportedly starting with the younger criminals first, under the reasoning that they would be the most scared.
Pierrepoint travelled several times to Hamelin, and between December 1948 and October 1949 he executed 226 people, often over 10 a day, and on several occasions groups of up to 17 over 2 days. After the Belsen executions, he was moved on to Nazi sympathisers, including the American-born fascist William Joyce, who had been granted the nickname Lord Haw-Haw due to his broadcasts across the English Channel in a fake posh accent trying to convince the British to surrender. He died 3 January 1946.
It is notable, however, that despite some claims to the contrary, Pierrepoint was not the hangman assigned to the war crime trials at Nuremberg (which fell under the jurisdiction of the Americans). It's notable in contrast to Pierrepoint, whose grim expertise in killing people with rope was such that he was hired to teach his methods to hangmen in Austria (reportedly their method was to let people strangle to death rather than their body weight breaking their necks like they did with his way), the American hire... err... wasn't that?
In fact, in contrast with Pierrepoint's... for lack for a better word consideration for the people he was killing, the American's choice, John C. Woods, had no prior experience as a hangman (reportedly lying that he had served as one as back in the US... in states where state-backed hangings had been phased out decades prior), and was notably at being kind of terrible at it? While Pierrepoint was all about killing people as quickly, painlessly and quietly as possible (both for the benefit of the prison staff as well as the victim), Woods deliberately botched executions to make the Nazis suffer as much as possible. Under the gallows operated by Woods, Nazis would dangle for minutes as they slowly strangled to death. Which considering the crimes that they had been convicted of, fair, but the contrast between the two men is fascinating.
Not least due to their later perspectives of their careers, with Albert returning to Britain and operating as a hangman for a further decade or so to retire to the pub in Preston that he had bought with the money from his executions back in the 1940s which he ran with his wife, Annie Fletcher.
It's notable that in the years following his retirement, he became opposed to the death penalty in Britain, and his obituary would quote his option opposed to the idea that capital punishment deterred crime,
'If death were a deterrent,' he wrote, 'I might be expected to know. It is I who have faced them at the last, young lads and girls, working men, grandmothers. I have been amazed to see the courage with which they take that walk into the unknown.
'It did not deter them then, and it had not deterred them when they committed what they were convicted for. All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment convince me that in what I have done I have not prevented a single murder.'
Albert passed away in a nursing home in 1992 at the age of 87.... while with his former colleague John, his own view of his time as a hangman was a lot more glib.
I hanged those ten Nazis … and I am proud of it … I wasn't nervous. … A fellow can't afford to have nerves in this business. … I want to put in a good word for those G.I.s who helped me … they all did swell. … I am trying to get [them] a promotion. … The way I look at this hanging job, somebody has to do it. I got into it kind of by accident, years ago in the States …
For his part, John would himself die in 1950 at the age of 39, when he accidentally electrocuted himself to death while stationed in the Marshall Islands.
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And Here sails the ship of
The Hangman's legacy
Just north of the port of moral reclamation –
Albert Pierrepoint's desired destination
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A Short History of John Amery
The first of several informational posts I'm going to be making. Hope you enjoy
The tale of John Amery (1912-1945) is one of many surprising twists and turns and what I’ve been invested in researching the past few weeks. The son of Parliament member, Leo Amery, John was born on March 14, 1912, in Chelsea, London and was followed by a brother, Julian in 1919. As a child, he was described by various caretakers as difficult, and this trend continued as he became older and attended Harrow School (in London.) After he finished with schooling, he had a failed stint as a movie director in Spain and spent some time in occupied France, including when he married Una Wing in Paris around 1935. He was also involved with Francisco Franco’s forces in the Spanish Civil War.
Photos of Amery (the woman with him is Una Wing, his first wife)
However, what Amery was most known for, and what shaped the rest of his life was his plan to recruit British men from POW camps to fight with the Germans to defeat communism. This project was called the British Free Corps and ended up not gaining numbers any higher than 50. This ended up being a failure and the British Free Corps eventually became a part of the Waffen-SS in 1943. Amery returned to Berlin to continue with his propaganda work until 1944 when he traveled to Italy to show his support for Mussolini.
This decision ended up being fatal, as Amery was captured by Italian partisans and handed over to the Allies. He was tried for treason at the London in a trial that began on November 28, 1945, and was defended by Gerald Slade. At first, argued that he was a Spanish citizen and therefore couldn’t commit treason against the UK. However, not long after, he shocked everyone by pleading guilty and received the mandatory sentence of death that treason carried by Justice Humphreys. Despite his family’s efforts to secure a pardon, Amery was executed at Wandsworth Prison at 9 am by Albert Pierrepoint who remarked afterward Amery met his fate with bravery. Allegedly, Amery’s last words were, "I've always wanted to meet you, Mr. Pierrepoint, though not of course under these circumstances.”
For more research on John Amery, I’d recommend the following sources:
Speech by John Amery in Oslo, Norway, 1944 - https://archive.org/details/speech-by-john-amery-in-oslo-norway-1944_202105
Psychiatric Report, November/December 1945 - https://history-room.co.uk/2021/02/26/john-amery-report/
Interview with Amery, 1944 - https://youtu.be/VJo9kCsTgRk
Speaking for England: Leo, Julian, and John Amery, the Tragedy of a Political Family by David Faber
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RUTH ELLIS
RUTH ELLIS
1926-1955
LAST WOMAN TO BE HANGED IN ENGLAND IN 1955
Ruth Ellis was born in Rhyl, Wales and was raised in Manchester. A former model and waitress. At 17, she fell in love with an American who was killed in action in 1944, Ellis gave birth to their son. Six years later she married a dentist and they had a child, he divorced her on the grounds that she was mentally cruel.
Ellis moved to London and became a club-hostess and hooker and in 1953 she met David Blakely, 29, a racing driver who initially became obsessed with Ruth. Ellis refused to marry him and even though she got involved with him, she also got involved with his friend. Blakely became jealous and physically abused her, gave her a black eye, broke her ankle and continued to see other women. Ellis threw him out the door, but he begged for her to return to him but she refused. She later gave in and they moved in together in Egerton Gardens, Kensington.
Blakely was still seeing other women, and after he hit her, Ellis miscarried their child. Worried he was having an affair, she followed him to an apartment in Hampstead, and heard him inside a room with a woman who she heard laughing. She knocked on the door and screamed, a window was broken and the police were called. The next day she returned, and saw Blakely walking down the stairs arm-in-arm with a young woman.
On 10 April, Easter Sunday, Ellis found Blakely walking out of the ‘Magdala’ a Hampstead pub, she took a gun out of her handbag and shot him six times.
Ellis admitted she was guilty and that she intended to kill him.Ellis trial lasted 14 minutes before it handed down a guilty verdict and she received the death penalty. Ellis didn’t appeal the conviction, however; thousands called for her sentence to be suspended. Ellis, 28, was executed at Holloway Gaol by famous hangman Albert Pierrepoint. Ellis became the last woman to be hanged in England.
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Gordon Cummins, the ‘Blackout Ripper,’ hanged during an air raid.
It is 8am on June 25, 1942. At airfields across wartime England, RAF Bomber Command are preparing the first thousand-bomber raid. That night large parts of Bremen will be destroyed and dozens of bombers will fail to return. In the House of Commons, Members of Parliament will shortly start the day’s work, debating and voting as they normally do. Just across the River Thames at Wandsworth Prison,…
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Albert Pierrepoint (Timothy Spall) tentou evitar, mas terminou seguindo os passos de seu pai e tornou-se carrasco em 1934. Aos poucos seu conceito cresce, devido ao uso sofisticado e frio de seus métodos, o que o faz ser o mais respeitado e temido carrasco da Inglaterra. Quando abandonou a profissão, em 1956, Pierrepoint tinha mais de 600 execuções em seu currículo.
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#OTD in 1944 – Charlie Kerins was hanged in Mountjoy Gaol by the English hangman Albert Pierrepoint.
#OTD in 1944 – Charlie Kerins was hanged in Mountjoy Gaol by the English hangman Albert Pierrepoint.
‘All I ask is that the ideals and principles for which I am about to die for will be kept alive until the Irish Republic is finally enthroned’. –Charlie Kerins
When the serial killer of Rillington Place, John Christie, complained that his nose itched after his arms had been bound, Albert Pierrepoint assured him: “It won’t bother you for long.” And it didn’t. Between the day he joined “the family…
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#Albert Pierrepoint#Éamon De Valera#Caherina#Charlie Kerins#Co. Kerry#England#Hangman#IRA#Mountjoy Gaol#Rath Cemetery#The Boy From Tralee#Tralee
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