The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-01-22
HJangman .Calcraft.

The noted cNecuGlOllcr taicralt, WHO
for forty SIX year held the Office of hang
man in England is dead There is u
stream in the suburbs Of London known
TO iatuane clerks and holiday making
schocboys ms the River Lee, whore cock
new youths take their aquatic diversion
on Saturday afternoon during the sum
mer months. On the days when the
river was deserted q lean, Vcnsiya and
clerical person would frequent the banks
with book in one hand and a fishing
rod in the other. 1t was CalcraIt, the
hancman. Where he came from, who
he was why he had chosen his particu
lar profession, nobody ever know. Lee
gend had it that he was q convict who
had been pardoned on the condition that
he would adopt the eXecutioners profess
sion. Others avcrred that he had en-
blaced it through a certain morbid love
of death. Calcraft never betrayed his
secret. and all biographies of the man
are fictitious. This alone is certain, that
lie has executed, with punctuality and
dispatch, some OF the most noted Grim
mails in the country. He entered the
business in 1888, about fifty years after
the Tvburn tree had been removed, and
the oalows was set up almost every
Monday morning in the narrow passage
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known as the Old Bailey. lie first
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