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Initially, there was no professional hangman employed—the executioner was simply chosen from among any who were deemed qualified. On occasion, convicted criminals were employed as hangmen, often in exchange for reduced sentences or monetary reward. In 1877, the sheriff of Blenheim recommended that a professional executioner be hired.[citation needed] Tom Long, an Irishman who claimed to have been an executioner in Australia, was hired as the official hangman.[2] He was the only official hangman to be publicly known; others remained anonymous.