John Ellis (executioner)
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John Ellis was a British executioner for 23 years, from 1901 to 1924. His other occupations were as a Rochdale hairdresser and newsagent.
John Ellis
Hawley Harvey Crippen
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Hawley Harvey Crippen, colloquially known as Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser who was hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, for the murder of his s
John Ellis (executioner)
…Billington. Ellis served as Chief Executioner from 1907 and was involved in a total of 203 executions. Among the executions he performed were those of Hawley Harvey Crippen (known as Dr. Crippen) in 1910, Frederick Seddon in 1912, Sir Roger Casement in 1916, Herbert Rowse Armstrong in 1922, and Edith Thompson in 1923. The…
Crippen, c. 1910
Corrine "Cora" Turner, aka Belle Elmore
Crippen, disguised, after his arrest
Alleged scar tissue used in evidence at the trial, claimed to be that of Cora Crippen