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English's career as Canada's professional hangman ended in ignominy following the botched execution of Tommasina Teolis, who had been convicted of hiring two hit men to kill her husband, at Bordeaux Prison in Montreal on 28 March 1935.
29. März 2010 · Shortly after midnight this date* in 1935, the career of 71-year-old Canadian executioner Arthur Ellis came to an end with the botched hanging of Thomasina Sarao. All a simple matter of physics.
Arthur Ellis. Arthur Ellis was the pseudonym of "Arthur B. English", a British man who became Canada's official hangman in 1913, after Radclive's death. Ellis worked as a hangman in Canada until the botched execution of Thomasina Sarao in Montreal in 1935, in which she was decapitated.
Arthur Bartholomew English, eigentlich Alexander Armstrong English, Pseudonym Arthur Ellis (geboren am 11. oder 12. März 1865, vermutlich in Newcastle upon Tyne, England; gestorben am 21. Juli 1938 in Montreal) war ein ehemaliger Soldat, der im Jahr 1913 zum offiziellen Henker von Kanada ernannt wurde.
Ellis’ first Canadian execution took place on February 11, 1910, in Brampton, Ontario when he served as a substitute for Radclive and hanged Stefan Swyryda, a Polish immigrant convicted of...
13. Apr. 2013 · His successor also took the name of Arthur Ellis. Our nation’s last executioner used the name John Ellis. As abolition was being debated in Canada ’s Parliament in the 1960’s he gave an interview to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Shortly after midnight this date* in 1935, the career of 71-year-old Canadian executioner Arthur Ellis came to an end with the botched hanging of Thomasina Sarao. All a simple matter of physics.
