Talk:James Billington (executioner)

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Did you know... that James Billington's use of a longer drop than usual when hanging the prisoner immortalized as "C.T.W" in Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol, stretched C.T.W's neck by eleven inches?

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