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Hi, I'm Steve Soldman and you'll sing to a classic episode of the useless information podcast.

This story about the hanging of Will Purvis is one of my favorites, although I have to admit I haven't told it in many, many years. I first penned it back in 2001 as part of the manuscript from my book

Limburg's artificial heart and then I recorded it for the

podcasts on March 2nd of 2008.

I honestly don't recall where I first came across the story but I do remember that

researching it was quite difficult and that's because online databases were few and

far between and even if you had access to one, the cost was quite prohibitive.

So, like many of these early stories, I did my research in a physical library.

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