‘I beg to offer you my services as executioner’

THE founder of Britain’s most famous family dynasty of executioners once offered his macabre services in a case in Cork, in 1903.

In a letter to the Under Sheriff of Cork on March 22, 1903, regarding the case of Andrew Moore, Henry A Pierrepoint’s letter began: “I beg to offer you my services as executioner.”

The letter is due to go for auction at Rochford’s on Grand Parade in Cork next Tuesday.