:13:00
Well, I sure am happy
to come across you, Mr...
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Grimes. Ossie Grimes,
of the Oklahoma Grimes.
:13:07
Mr. Grimes, yes, sir.
Yeah, I sure am happy I've run across...
:13:12
You know, I've always been
sort of curious about your job.
:13:17
Well, there's a lot more to it
than most folks think.
:13:21
There's nothing worse
than a sloppy hanging.
:13:23
Back in Oklahoma, I once watched them
hang a fella five times before it took.
:13:28
Five times? Five?
:13:30
Just exactly what do you
have to know, Mr. Grimes...
:13:36
...in order to make a good,
clean, professional job of it?
:13:40
Well, just about everything.
:13:43
You have to know how tall
your subject is, how much he weighs...
:13:47
...his neck size
and how he feels about it all.
:13:51
- Then you have to be certain...
- Excuse me.
:13:55
You mean to say you have to know...
:13:57
...how the fellow you're gonna hang
feels about it?
:14:00
Oh, yes, sir.
:14:01
A scared man who's crying
and praying and shaking...
:14:04
...and moving around is
harder to send to his maker...
:14:07
...than one who's decided
to just stand there and take it.
:14:10
Uh-huh.
:14:11
Why, I had a subject last year...
:14:13
...took me an hour
just to get him up off his knees.
:14:17
- Is that a fact?
- That's a fact.
:14:19
You can't hang a subject
when he's on his knees.
:14:22
It just don't look right.
:14:27
And I'll tell you one more thing.
When you select a rope...
:14:44
- What are you looking at?
- You tell me.
:14:50
- Hey, Robbie.
What?
:14:53
I got a young boy here
who's worried about his future.
:14:55
Yeah. I reckon he is at that too.
:14:59
I hope to God that they don't dump
himself and myself in the same hole.