SOBRIETY DIFFICULT.
ATTEMPT TO HANG HANGMAN. WARSAW, December 2. Believing that the hangman, Arthur Brauu, and his two assistants had gone into a night club to celebrate a double execution they had performed, the revellers attacked them viciously and tried to hang the hangman. Really, the executioners explained to the authorities, they had only gone to the place for stinmlant. They protested that nobody could follow their gruesome profession without drink. The assault upon, them was severe. The incensed crowd attacked them with chairs and sticks, hurled bottles and glasses, and tried to hang Braun from a lamp-post. He escaped, seriously injured, and kept his assailants at bay with a revolver until the. police arrived. The Government dismissed all three men. Braun is the third hangman who has been discharged for drunkenness, all of them claiming that recourse to drink was unavoidable.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 290, 7 December 1932, Page 7
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142SOBRIETY DIFFICULT. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 290, 7 December 1932, Page 7
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