Hanging Judge Edward Seton Analysis

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People call me a hanging judge, but that’s not very fair. I enjoy people receiving punishment for their actions. That is why I brung the nine others to the island. Each had a crime that they were accused for. I am a retired judge. The voice that accused the inhabitants of the island of murders accused me of killing Edward Seton. I remember that chap. Created a good influence on the jury. I took every piece of evidence I could to convict him and did just that. I cooked his goose all right. That satisfied me but I had an itch for more. I wanted to create a grand mystery that no one could solve. I am quite sadistic, as you can tell. As a kid, I enjoyed killing bugs. More than fifty years later, I still enjoyed watching the guilty squirm in the

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