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...cold December night in 1773, John Hicks let himself out of his second story bedroom window by a sheet rope. He was off to join a band of "Indians" in filling Boston Harbor with tea, and could not let his Tory son know of the plot. The staircase creaked even then...
...return trip was more difficult. Hicks found that he could not climb up the rope as easily as down. Leaving his boots downstairs, he sneaked up into bed quickly; he would wake up before his family and take away the boots. But he overslept, and when he came down in the morning his wife was waiting...
...hunched little man in a dark suit walked into Munro's hardware store in Edmonton last week and asked for 80 feet of seven-eighths inch sisal rope. The woman clerk who waited on him paid scant attention to the $11 sale. So far as she knew, the wispy customer was just another farmer, in town for the day, buying rope to break a balky horse or fix a hay lift in the barn...
...rope served a more somber purpose. By nightfall it had been expertly cut and knotted into two nooses that swayed from the main beam of a double gallows in Fort Saskatchewan Jail, 20 miles away. Shortly after midnight, while a small group of witnesses looked on, the nooses were slipped over the black-hooded heads of two convicted murderers. The dark-suited little man, known professionally as Mr. Ellis, checked to make sure that the slipknots fitted snugly behind each man's left ear. Then he sprang the trap door and the prisoners plunged downward...
...course going to leave him like this," says the thrilled little hero of An Ideal Craftsman on finding an old man's strangled body in a closet. "Why . . . it's as easy as A B C," he assures the trembling murderer. "You get a rope and make a noose, and you put it . . . round his neck . . . And then you hang him up on a nail or something. He mustn't touch the ground, of course . . . They'll say he hanged himself, don't you see?" And in two ticks the corpse is dangling from...