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To: DieHard the Hunter

ok ... I give up - who’s “Mr. Pierrepont”?

23 posted on 12/11/2008 5:49:13 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)

To: DuncanWaring

> ok ... I give up - who’s “Mr. Pierrepont”?

Albert Pierrepont. Famous British hangman. Amongst many others, he hanged over eighty Nazis as a result of the Nurnberg trials after WW-II.

When he wasn’t hanging people, he was a publican. IIRC he one day had the dubious pleasure of hanging one of his regulars.

24 posted on 12/11/2008 5:56:13 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghÃ©ill mi do dhuine. FÃ g am bealach.)

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