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Contractible noncompact 3-manifold without boundary not homeomorphic to $\Bbb R^3$

I heard this example was given in Whitehead's paper A CERTAIN OPEN MANIFOLD WHOSE GROUP IS UNITY.( http://qjmath.oxfordjournals.org/content/os-6/1/268.full.pdf ) But I was confused by his term. Thus I'm looking for a standard explanation about this example.

But since my aim is to know about an example of this kind, any alternative will do either.

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