Originally posted by The Baron
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No one knows the answer to that question except for Bury. James Berry, the man who executed Bury, wrote that Bury asked him “I suppose you think you are clever to hang me?” and “The man about to die laid particular emphasis on the last word he spoke. He talked as if he thought himself to be one who stood head and shoulders above every other criminal who had passed through my hands” (Stewart Evans, Executioner, p.307). From this interaction it sounds like Bury could have been ready to confess to his Whitechapel murders, and if he had been handled differently at the very end, he might well have done so.
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