Experiences as an Executioner James Berry makes no mention of the Whitechapel murders for which there have always been multiple suspects. However, his belief that Bury and "Jack the Ripper" were one and the same was published in his memoirs which appeared in Thomson's Weekly News of 12 February 1927. Later life Following his retirement, Berry toured as an evangelist and gave lectures on phrenology. In his book The Hangman's Thoughts Above the Gallows (1905) he complains that "the law of capital punishment falls with terrible weight upon the hangman and that to allow a man to follow such an occupation is doing him a deadly wrong". Smith Wigglesworth, the evangelist and preacher, records his conversion to Christianity, in a sermon which was later published in Faith that Prevails (1938): Following his conversion to Christianity, James Berry became a prominent campaigner for the abolition of the death penalty. Berry died at Walnut Tree Farm, 36 Bolton Lane, Bradford, West Yorkshire, on 21 October 1913. His writing The Hangman's Thoughts Above the Gallows (1905) My Experiences as an Executioner, London : P. Lund, [1892] (via Internet Archive) See also List of executioners Official Table of Drops Notes Bibliography Further reading Atholl, Justin, Shadow of the Gallows, London, John Long, 1954. Atholl, Justin, The Reluctant Hangman, London, John Long, 1956. Bailey, Brian, Hangmen of England, London, W. H. Allen, 1989. Bleackley, Horace, The Hangmen of England, London, Chapman and Hall, 1929. Duff, Charles, A New Handbook on Hanging, London, Andrew Melrose, 1954. Evans, Stewart P., Executioner. The Chronicles of James Berry, Victorian Hangman, Sutton Publishing (2004), Fielding, Steve, The Hangman's Record, Vol. One, 1868–1899, Beckenham, Chancery House Press, 1994. Furniss, Harold, 'James Berry Constable, Bootmaker and Hangman' in Famous Crimes Past and Present, Vol. IV, no. 44, n.d. (c.1904). Goodman, Jonathan, and Bill Waddell, The Black Museum, London, Harrap, 1987. Hywel-Davies, Jack, 'Baptised By Fire' The story of Smith Wigglesworth, 1987. (Pages 47-48). Laurence, John, A History of Capital Punishment, London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., n.d. Potter, Harry, Hanging in Judgement, London, SCM Press, 1993. Scott, George Ryley, The History of Capital Punishment, London, Torchstream Books, 1950. Smith, Lieut Col Sir Henry, From Constable To Commissioner, London, Chatto & Windus, 1910. Tod, T. M., The Scots Black Kalendar, Perth, Monro & Scott, 1938. Young, Alex F., The Encyclopaedia of Scottish Executions, Orpington, Eric Dobby, 1998. Sheridan, Michael, The murder at Shandy