Date:  Mon, 12 Jun 1995 18:50:34 -0500

From:  Daniel S Goodman <dsg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAROON.TC.UMN.EDU>

Subject: Re: ? hangman = Mr. Ellis (fwd)



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Date: Fri 9 Jun 95 09:42:20-CST

From:DARNOLD[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CHARLY.PUBLIB.SASKATOON.SK.CA

To: stumpers-list[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CRF.CUIS.EDU

Subject: Re: ? hangman = Mr. Ellis



Thanks to Jack and Fran for their attempts, and to Janet for suggesting

Arthur Ellis. The book _Hanging in Canada: concise history of a

controversial topic_ (Frontier Books, 1982), by Frank W. Anderson,

briefly reappeared on our shelves (it's out again). We checked a chapter

about Arthur Ellis and discovered that it was the trade name used by

Arthur Bartholomew English, who became Canada's best known hangman. The

name was also used by one of Arthur's successors, and newspaper reporters

of the time (between 1910 and 1935, I believe) had a tendancy to refer to

all hangmen as "Mr. Ellis". So there you go.



Thanks again for your help.



Dawn Arnold

Saskatoon Public Library

darnold[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]charly.publib.saskatoon.sk.ca