Hangman Loses Job
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) SALISBURY, March 17 Mr Edward Milton, the Rhodesian hangman who carried out the executions of five Africans recently, has been dismissed. Mr Milton was giving a television interview at his place of business in Karoi, about 100 miles north-west of Salisbury, on Friday when he received a telephone call from the Ministry of Justice giving him three months notice.
He said he thought he had been dismissed from his par<. time job because of adverse reports in the overseas press.
“The smallest remark and the slightest indiscretion has been grasped eagerly by outside reporters," Mr Milton said.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31631, 18 March 1968, Page 13
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101Hangman Loses Job Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31631, 18 March 1968, Page 13
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