PLAYERS IN THE DEADLY GAME OF HANGMAN IN CANADA

THE MURDERER

 

 

“For every victim, there has to be an aggressor — a man, woman, or child who pulls the trigger or plunges the knife or slips arsenic into a cup of tea.”

 

 

Teolis hired 2 hit men to kill her husband. In March 1935, hangman Arthur Ellis miscalculated the length of rope required for her execution, and she was decapitated. This shocking event led to a huge public outcry and signaled the end of Ellis’s career.

Excerpted from Drop Dead by Lorna Poplak
Copyright © Lorna Poplak, 2017   All rights reserved
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