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“On Sunday night, while journeying on a crowded Severn steamer from Holt to Stourport, Alfred Simcox, hairdresser of Kidderminster, fell dead. Simcox was one of the deputy hangmen in the country and officiated at the execution of Wyre at Worcester for the murder of his son. After that execution, Simcox addressed a large gathering at Kidderminster on the gruesome ceremony, and exhibited the rope he used, which led to an official inquiry by the Home Office.”

Originally reported in the Worcester Journal June 1903.