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for the most part executioners wore black bags over there heads to protect there idenity because they would use a person in the comunity to comit the act

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Riel's hangman of record was Jack Henderson. Henderson had been one of Riel's prisoners at Fort Garry during the Red River Resistance. Henderson was paid $80.00 to hang Riel.

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