HONORARY" EXECUTIONER
.When the occupant of an official position in Franco retires he is usually given the title of honorary holder of the oflicc, and it is in this sense that Monsieur Anatolo Deibler will shortly become "honorary executioner to the Trench Republic." It is announced that he is going out of business, and that he is already building tbe villa in Paris in which he proposes to spend his later years. However, it appears that the appointment, which carries a salary of £150 a. year and £80 for expenses and assistants, will not go out of the family, for it is said that a nnphew of Deiblcr, whose name is
Andre' Auprechfc, will in future be.iv command of tho guillotine. Executions in France are still nominally public (comments the Paris correspondent of the "Observer"), and arc held in open squares in front of prison?, although spectators arc in fj\ot kept nl n distance by troops and by flu: parly hour which is chosen, so (hat these. <vwnts are no longer rhc spectacular display which they remained almost
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 72, 26 March 1931, Page 11
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178HONORARY" EXECUTIONER Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 72, 26 March 1931, Page 11
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