BEAUTY SEEKS STRANGE POST.
Vilna’s beauty queen has applied for the post of Polish executioner. l.he present hangman is retiring after having scored a century. Having hanged nis hundredth, he is going to. take up farming. The beauty queen lias been unable to hud employment as a shop assistant, and has ifniled to make a career as a singer. Applying for the hangman’s job, sue states that the prospect of executing icriininals arouses no fear within Her whatever. ... The woman says she is sure she will be found to possess a firm liaml. aad tliat «he can execute to the entire-satisfaction of the authorities. She is only one ot several hundred applicants. Many are •university graduates, including several doctors and lawyers. In fact, the Mmlister of the Interior has an embarrassing task to select The right i»erson for Uns delicate job.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 147, 19 March 1934, Page 3
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