George Maledon, the Prince of Hangmen.
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I got all choked up watching this episode!🤠
LOL!
Episodes like this are why I hang around this channel. It's always great noose when I see that there's a new video!
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Thank you Santee. Glad I never got to meet the man personally. :) Have a great weekend.
Same here!
Another video tied up. Thanks Santee for hanging out with us.
HAHA! I stuck my neck out for this.
@@ArizonaGhostriders 😂😂
Glad I could hangout 😜
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We need him and Jdg Parker now!
In some cases I would agree.
We also need jona hex and the punisher
Awesome video thanks for sharing👍❤❤
You're welcome.
I'm always happy to see Jimmy Stewart. Mr. Stewart was everything a man was supposed to be, the right amount of pride with humility, honor without boasting and the kind of real strength most real men admire. Mr. Maledon, on the other hand, I would imagine was not a pleasant man to be around. If you are a professional killer and tell me "I was just doing my job." I don't think I would be inviting you to dinner any time soon.
What makes you think he wouldn't be pleasant to be around? I've got friends who were paid by the military to kill people and they are pleasant to be around.
My five year old now hums your intro music, if that tells you how much he is a fan of your show
I love that!
Thanks and hope you and Mrs. Santee had a Happy Thanksgiving too!
Yes we did.
Hope you and Mrs Santee had a WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING... Love the hat and the video was great as always ! As a kid playing cowboys we said { 13 Steps to 13 Knots } . Can't wait to see what you have next .
Thanks! Hope yours was good, too!
Thanks for sharing amigo!! I will never complain of neck problems, and if I do will remember not to 😊
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@@ArizonaGhostriders Marco!!!
If you ever find yourself near Ft. Smith it’s well worth stopping to visit the old federal courthouse. Lots of history and a fine museum too.
I plan to! Thanks.
Thanks again Santee & Co.
Our pleasure!
I had a great time “ hanging out “ with you ✌️
HAHA! Thank You!
another interesting subject, awesome job again. thank you
You're welcome!
Great Show as Always
You rock!
glad i hung around for this one!!!
HA!
Thank you Santee!🤠
You're welcome.
That lemon squeezer looks pretty good atop your dome, Santee. You have to respect a man who goes out of his way to perform his duties in as efficient a manner as possible. Not saying that I'd enjoy sharing a meal with him, but at least he didn't take pleasure in the suffering of others. Been a while since I've seen Bandolero! Might be time to go revisit that one. Always liked Jimmy and Dean, and Raquel Welch is hard not to like.
Thanks. I like the movie, too. Don't like the ending, but it's a good film
Santee, Great Old West content. Thank you very much. You and your family have a beautiful and blessed weekend.
Thank you kindly
Another good one, Santee!
Thanks for listening
Love it!
So glad!
Think l will hang around and watch this episode 😊
LOL!
Saturday mornings: Watching Santee while drinking a cup 'o Joe from my Arizona Ghostriders mug. 👍
Awesome and thanks!
Great video Santee
I appreciate that.
Another awesome informative video Santee, great work!!
Thank You!
Nice! Being a hangman must have been one of the most stressful and nightmarish jobs ever.
I imagine
Just another day at the office. Very informative video Santee!
Thank You!
Good show !!
Thank You!
Thanks for the video.
You bet
An American Albert Pierrepoint. The most prolific British hangman. Experts in suspended sentences. 😂
HAAH!
The role of the hangman is always an interesting subject. There are a number of cases where the hangman was a murderer who received a pardon on the understanding they would take over the vacant position as hangman. The logic behind this was that as this person was used to killing people it should not trouble them to kill others. Truth was these people were usually not cold blooded killers and their actions were usually on the spare of the moment. Also even if they were not killers themselves they were usually excluded from society because even though they were carrying out a task required by law they were still seen as taking someone life.
It's a tough job that weighs heavily on a person.
You know, the toll it takes on the man responsible for carrying it out makes a better argument for the abolition of the death penalty than most. I'd never really considered that aspect of it before.
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Hey Santee, love your hat. Good episode as usual. Take care my friend.
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Good morning Arizona Gost Riders. I look forward to seeing your video on Saturday morning. I hope you had a GREAT THANKSGIVING DAY. Ted from San Antonio Texas
Thank you! You too!
Great video Santee, Love the hat, it looks great on you. JT
Thank You!
Happy Thanksgiving Mr. & Mrs. Santee. Great video.
Same to you!
Thanks for another great video, that campaign hat looks great on you
Much appreciated!
GOOD ONE ! VERY INTERESTING ADIOS SANTEE
Thank You!
I enjoy facts woven with humor while telling the story of the American Old West. This channel is really special, and I always look forward to these brief glimpses into our nation's past.
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Once again I was thinking to myself "Santee should do a video about George Maledon" after talking to my English friend about the British hangman Albert Pierrepoint. And here you go and do it.From now on I will be sending you my video ideas and requests telepathically. 😂😆 Great job Santee, as always. Thank you.
HAHAH! Glad it worked out.
Good to see you in your traditional western garb! You should go to work like this. It suits you. 😊
LOL!
Awesome topic. Never heard of George Maledon the "Prince of Hangmen" before. Glad I hung around until the very end. I was hanging on your every word. He was the host at many a necktie party. Invitation only from Judge Parker. To say he did not git ta know them long is a bit of a stretch. Interesting that in addition to his salary he earned $5.00 for each hanging. The court pay records may be a way of obtaining a number of how many people he hanged.
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Thanks for another good vid. Hope you and Mrs Santee had a happy Thanksgiving.
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Very interesting topic this week. It impresses me that you come up with such great topics week after week. Thanks. Be safe out there, and take it easy man.
Thanks, will do!
Hope you and Mrs Santee had a awesome thanksgiving. Had me on the end of my rope with this one. Hehehehe 🤠🇺🇲
LOL!
Happy thanksgiving. You really looped us around on this one but knotted it up. Glad you didn’t string us along.
I stretched my neck out for this one.
I wish these videos were longer. If they were 30 minutes long I'd watch a lot more. It's hard to sit thru all the intros and outros while watch more than a few at a time. Great info about the old west. I do appreciate the work that is put into the videos.
You can just skip the intros and outros. I work a full time job on top of editing and research. When I have tried longer formats, the analytics show people only watch about 4 minutes anyway.
GEORGE MALEDON IS ACTUALLY MY ANCESTOR IM BEING FR GUYS!! HE IS MY GRANDMAS ANCESTOR
Wow!
Just hanging out with Santee...
Kinda surprised he'd stick his neck out on such a knotty subject...
That's a bit of a stretch!
My grandfather's great uncle, Cherokee Bill was hanged at Ft. Smith...It was always a family legend what he said to the judge when asked if he had anything to say before he was hanged by the neck until he was dead, dead, dead. As kids, we thought that was pretty spicy!
It is spicy!
My Great Uncles and Second cousin were in the FBI. My Great Uncle Steve worked a few notable cases in anti-terror 80s and 90s. My Great Uncle John used to bounce around to Narcos, Homicide and Sex Crimes. A lot of people that my Great Uncle John investigated, some of them were sentenced to either life in prison or death by lethal injection. My Uncle Steve worked the Oklahoma City Bombing and the First Bombing of the World Trade Center (the one with a van). He also worked the uni-bomber case and finally the aftermath of the Waco, Texas standoff. He worked in the arson team during Waco.
CooL!
Im familiar with the story of this judge, you did a fine job my friend.
Why thank you!
Very nicely done and informative video Santee. You had me hanging on your every word :)
Glad you liked it! LOL!
Looks like KZhead despised my previous comment and zapped it. So, let me try this again, Santee.... Had a happy and relaxing Thanksgiving. Hope you did too!
Thank You!
Talk about being able to leave your job at the office, and not carry it home. I'd say that George Maledon was able to do just that. Besides the obvious storyline, I always enjoy the audio/visuals thrown in. Of course, on this particular subject, not too graphic... another great one, Santee. 🤠👏🏻👏🏻
Yeah, I didn't want to harp on the details of hanging a man in this one. Thanks!
Santee, I'm originally from Michigan. I actually visited Fort Smith with my late mother in 2009 to see the hanging judges. Court and see where the gallons were. It was a very interesting trip. I really enjoyed visiting Judge Parker's court. Thank you, Santee, for sharing that great story.
You're welcome!
Never heard of him, good video
Thank You!
So very interestingly informative and inspiring video, I really liked and enjoyed it. I got a lot of inspiration for the old west frontier, paranormal and frutigar aero/Y2K techno-utopian futurism story and series that I'm working on wrand illustrating for. Great job and well done,keep up the great work. I learned a lot about the old west frontier and George Maledon, who i didn't know anything about till just now. Thanks for the history lesson on different individuals from the old west frontier, I really enjoyed it. I'm definitely going to create some old west inspired characters for my story. The part of my story that I'm writing today is where my characters are in a old west frontier/1920s styled manor that is also a shrine, that has been overrun by entity monsters and entity beings. There's a quija board in the story too. My storys main character Mercia Hawkins is a old west lawman deputy and paranormal investigator/documentarian researcher as his second job. His father Thomason Thatcher is the sheriff of Faron City. I hope you all had a good thanksgiving. Happy holidays.
Glad to see you are still writing and creating!
@@ArizonaGhostriders thanks. Right now I’m working on brainstorming part 4 of my story dream notes continuation for the story and naming the characters and places that I dreamed up already. Four of the characters that I dreamed up and named were: Xelva/Selva Henley, Lek Zephyrus , Lige/Lijah Zephram ( Elijah Zephram) and Xilda Harlan. I’m using my dreams to write my story and series and then doing illustrations from dream images. I think I might be starting to pick up on the spiritual science of the mind and a little bit and controlling my dreams to some degree.
I live not too far from Fort Smith and is worth checking out the old courthouse and museum.
I wanna go!
Brings to mind the old pre TV days of Gunsmoke on the radio series William Conrad (starred on TV as Cannon private detective) played Matt Dillon. One episode featured a hangman who evidently despised by the "good folk". When Matt Dillon meets him he comments on live radio " I always recognize one of your clients Hangman because they are always well hung." The other actors had to step in to adlib loudly to cover for his hysterical laughter. Great fiddle music at the end. More please reminds me of my Scots Grandfather.
Thanks for sharing.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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Well, I'd say that unlike some of his Wild West contemporaries he hung around for a long time.
LOL!
My grandfather and an uncle went to see the last public hanging in the US, in Owensboro Kentucky. My dad wasn't allowed to go along with them because he was considered too young. This was a pitifully botched execution. The rope broke on the first drop. On the second drop the executioner was so so drunk that a lawman pushed him aside and pulled the trap himself. You can find the whole event online.
Whoah, no way!!
Yup, do a little research, you'll find it. @@ArizonaGhostriders
wow never thought about the history of hangmen in the old west
glad you learned
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Thank You!
Thank You Santee for another great video. I hope you and your family had a great Thanksgiving.
I did!
Let me be the first to wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS! God bless.
Thank you, Frank!
Santee, I have been slack. I have not seen this video and it is 3 months old! I guess staying po'd at liberals has dulled my senses. This was great. I always admired George Maledon. He was a 2 gun pistol packin', no nonsense guy. And since he even hanged the ghosts as well as the miscreants themselves, I guess he had to be the most successful hangman the old west ever knew. Oh if only he and Parker were around today.
Better late than never! Thanks for you comment.
Hello, I am your fan. And fond of old west movies. You made video on coffee, cigarette in old west can you make video about tea and chinese workers in old west.
Absolutely.
After the judge says that Billy the Kid says you can go to hell hell hell lol I love that movie Young Guns, and Young Guns 2
Yes!
Hope that you and your Family had a great Turkey Day also
We did thanks.
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Excellent video Santee! An interesting character just like Albert Pierrepoint. Where did you film this? I noticed the cannon in the background. Have a great weekend and I hope you and Mrs. Santee had a very Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanks. I filmed this in the museum at work. That canon is from the 1960 movie the Alamo starring John Wayne. It's fiberglass!
I would imagine that job would weight heavy on the mind and the soul.
Yep
I've been enjoying your shows ever since and learning more about the wild west. Thanks but I also interested in knowing about your pup German Shepherd must've grown.
Cool, thanks! Dirty Dog and his sister are full grown and living with their parents Dirty Dan and Doreen.
@@ArizonaGhostriders thanks, got them pictures ?
Hope all is well santee
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From Time Life's The Old West: The Gunfighters "Maledon took somber pride in his hangings: only an expert could guarantee that the victim's fall would break his neck, thus sparing him slow strangulation. As Maledon drily remarked years later, 'I never hanged a man who came back to have the job done over.' " (Trachtman, 1974) "Once, when asked if he was haunted by the ghosts of his victims, he cheerily replied: 'No, because I reckon I hanged them too.' " (Trachtman, 1974)
Yeah, he took pride in a job very few could do.
I was in Johnson City Tennessee earlier this week. I wonder how close to his grave I was? The cemetery I visited had graves as early as some Revolutionary War veterans.
Johnson City cemetery is I think the place.
A short drop with a sudden stop.
Yes
Love your videos! Who is editing them?
Me!
I know you already made a video off of a prompt I suggested, but one question I’ve had about settlers moving out west is, how often did people move back east?
That's a tough one to pinpoint. First of all, if they had land out here given to them by the government, moving east may not have been financially feasible. Some who found their fortune at the goldfields went back east with their riches.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Ok, but I wasn’t sure if there was an instance where a group of settlers that ran out of supplies part of the way, and decided to turn back, or there was a town that failed and everyone left to go back to what they knew before.
There was always a small percentage that turned around and went back east. People ran out of patience on the wagon trains and turned around. An Arkansas man took his slaves to the gold fields of California, didn't find much, and went back to Arkansas. An uncle I knew of, cut the telegraph lines down and left Texas and his extended family and his debts on the train to go back to Georgia. Men hit it lucky in the gold fields and went back to marry the gal he loved. Some had already gotten married to somebody else. Trains really made travel a much easier experience. Upon the arrival of one of the babies, women would load up and take the baby to back to see mama and aunt Martha. What is staggering to me is the persistence that pushed folks up the Oregon trail is spite of all the hardships.
How did these small towns deal with Presidential elections in the old days ?? Can you do that show ??
Sure
There was a book many years ago called the _Book of Lists_ which was that - facts and figures listed out. One of the lists was the optimal drop height, prisoner height and prisoner weight that hangmen used to make executions go smoothly. It really was bad form to have the convict's head pop off during the drop.
Yup, and it happened a little too often.
Quite interesting fellow. It's a shame he was in the other 1st Arkansas instead of the official State unit 1st Arkansas. Hope y'all had a great Thanksgiving.
You know more about that history than I!
Great episode again, how do you know when Bill is about to show up? Or Rex?
I don't. Well, Rex....you can hear him before he gets there.
Wonder if e andd Bass Reeves ever crossed paths? Same part of the country at the same time?
I'm sure they did.
Can you do a video on gambling cheaters and the devices they use. P.S tell Dan i want my loaded dice and deck back.
OK!
Interesting topic! 2 questions which Jimmy Stewart movie was the clip taken from ? And, which movie was the scene from with the desperado swinging back and forth like a pendulum ?looks like a scene from a comedy I have forgotten or not seen. Thanks for the great entertainment!
The pendulum swing hanging is from Adam Sandler’s comedy film “The Ridiculous Six”
Bandolero!
Well, bringing the Old World to the New World, hm? What an interesting name for a German. Maledon.
I found a bunch of 'em going back to the 1790s out of Insheim.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Wow! What part of Germany is that in? My family comes from southern Germany, Black Forest.
@@BJBlaskovichGaming Southeast of Heidelberg.
Hey Santee, can you make another one about boots?
Sure.
We need more hangman jokes. Happy Thanksgiving to all. What’s a giblet?
Guts!
He rarely accepted a.call from the governor 😮😮😮😮
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Santee I never in a gajillion years would of thought I would ever be playing or dressing this one and I'm not sure you play to many video games most cowboys I can do but this is for a mortal Kombat show and have been asked to do erron black I can't find much research on the character or concept art other then when his hat gets knocked off I seem to have the hair for it or lack of any advice ????
Never played that game, sorry.
@@ArizonaGhostriders I was afraid you were gonna say that ok ill seek out a millennial ☹️😭you know I'm afraid I may misbehave and someone may have to kill me I think I'm just gonna decline this part thanx anyway
tough job i would say🤔
It had to be, right?
Excuse me Santee do you know anyone online that makes custom pistol grips I really need to know thank you
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Sounds like the Honreble Mr. Parker and George Maledon hung out alot. Err, I could have phrased it better.
HAHA! Well, that may be a bit of a stretch.
Anyone know what the Jimmy Stewart movie was?
Bandolero!
thank you.
He said he hanged their ghosts too. 😅😅😅😅
LOL!
A story about Prosper Powell Parker?
I'll look into it