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James Berry (8 February 1852 – 21 October 1913) was an English executioner from 1884 until 1891. Berry was born in Heckmondwike in the West Riding of Yorkshire , where his father worked as a wool-stapler .
William Marwood influenced James Berry, a retired police officer and friend, to take up the role of hangman. During his time Berry improved upon William Marwood's technique of the long drop . Marwood was one of two executioners to give their name to the character of the hangman in the British Punch and Judy puppet show ( Jack Ketch being the ...
The fourth Baronet was a well-known military adventurer and sportsman. He was eccentric enough to bribe hangman James Berry into accepting him as assistant executioner on the occasion of a triple hanging in Carlisle on 8 February 1886. [3] The title became extinct on the death of the eighth Baronet in 1952.
His son, the fourth Baronet, was a well-known military adventurer and sportsman. He was eccentric enough to bribe hangman James Berry into accepting him as assistant executioner on the occasion of a triple hanging in Carlisle on 8 February 1886. [11]
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Scott was an assistant executioner for James Berry as early as 1889. [2] Starting in January 1892, he worked as an assistant hangman to James Billington, who was the chief executioner of Great Britain and Ireland. [3] Scott was scheduled to assist Billington in a hanging on 17 December 1895 at Walton Prison.