Miss Devore wears a pinky ring on her right hand before murdering Quinke; when she removes her wig and her clutching hands are seen, the ring is on her left pinky; when she pushes Quinke under water, it's again on her right hand.
In Boris Karloff's opening scene, Karloff leans down to look at Meg Peyton's corpse as she swings from the noose. Meg's dead and putrid hands and fingers move while she holds the wig above her dead and decaying head.
The execution with which the story begins, supposedly in eighteenth-century England, employs the "long drop" method of hanging which did not appear until after the 1868 reforms which ended public executions and thus did not encourage protracted suffering.