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If a priest came into my room late at night, I'd check my chastity belt.
FYI, there's a pretty good movie about the United Kingdom's official executioner back then, Albert Pierrepoint. Title is "Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman." He performed the last hanging in the Irish state, of Michael Manning in April 1954.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462477/
And at least the illustrator got the aircraft pretty much right, a Lockheed Constellation. Though our hero must have been very privileged, since air travel was too expensive for most people in the 1950s:
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