My Experiences As An Executioner

About this eBook

Author

Berry, James, 1852-1913

Title

My Experiences as an Executioner

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Paul Clark and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare

Subject

Executions and executioners -- Great Britain

Category

Text

eBook-No.

46579

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46579

Release Date

August 13, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MY EXPERIENCES AS AN EXECUTIONER.
2. 2.Contents. — CHAPTER I. — CHAPTER II. — CHAPTER III. — CHAPTER IV. — CHAPTER V. — CHAPTER VI. — CHAPTER VII. — CHAPTER VIII. — CHAPTER IX. — CHAPTER X. — CHAPTER XI. — CHAPTER XII. — CHAPTER XIII. — APPENDIX .
3. 3.INTRODUCTION.
4. 4.CHAPTER I. The Executioner at Home. By H. Snowden Ward. — LINES FOR ONE UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH.
5. 5.CHAPTER II. How I became an Executioner.
6. 6.CHAPTER III. My First Execution. [A]
7. 7.CHAPTER IV. My Method of Execution. CALCULATIONS AND APPARATUS. — The Drop. — SCALE SHOWING THE STRIKING FORCE OF FALLING BODIES AT DIFFERENT DISTANCES. — The Rope. — Pinioning Straps, Etc. — The Scaffold.
8. 8.CHAPTER V. My Method of Execution. THE PROCEEDINGS. — EXECUTION of CHARLES SMITH for MURDER. — OFFICIAL DECLARATION. — SURGICAL CERTIFICATE.
9. 9.CHAPTER VI. Other Methods of Execution.
10. 10.CHAPTER VII. Two Terrible Experiences.
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. How Murderers Die. — Robert F. Vickers and William Innes. — Mary Lefley. — Joseph Lawson , — Peter Cassidy. — Moses Shrimpton . — Rudge, Martin and Baker. — Mary Ann Britland. — James Murphy. — Edward Pritchard — Walter Wood. — Alfred Sowrey. — Dr. Philip Henry Eustace Cross. — Joseph Walker. — John Jackson , — Charles Joseph Dobell and William Gower. — Samuel and Joseph Boswell. — Richard Davies. — Mary Eleanor Wheeler , — John Conway ,
12. 12.CHAPTER IX. From the Murderer’s point of view. — Arthur Shaw. — Thomas Parry , — George Horton , — Edward Pritchard — Alfred Scandrett , — Arthur Delaney. — Elizabeth Berry.
13. 13.CHAPTER X. On Capital Punishment.
14. 14.CHAPTER XI. Hanging: From a Business Point of View.
15. 15.CHAPTER XII. The Press and the Public.
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII. Incidents and Anecdotes.
17. 17.Appendix. The Trouble with “Answers” Limited. — FOOTNOTES:

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