STOLE PUBLIC FUNDS.
SO THEY WERE HANGED. LONDON, December 1. Colonel Niarifopoulogj formerly chief, of police at Salonika, and Col. Drakatds were on Monday sentenced to death fdf embezzing. public funds, and hanged this morning outside the city, says a message from Athens. * | Thirty thousand spectators were pro-' foundly interested in the new method of execution, the present Grovernmfcnt fiav-1 ing introduced Hanging instead of shoot-1 ing,-which had been the prescribed procedure for 15 years. Prior to 1910 the, guillotine was used. j
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 290, 8 December 1925, Page 7
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