AT GALLOW’S FOOT
CONDEMNED MEN PARDONED SENTENCES COMMUTED Pre-fs Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BELGRADE, October 20. (Received October 21, at 1.45 p.m.) A scene in the film ‘ The Last Minute Pardon 5 was outrivalled when two notorious bandits, Joaitch and Mitchitch, were pardoned actually at the foot of the gallows, where, with their leader, Ivan Odohasitch, they were awaiting execution. The iudge who had to preside over the eecutions had just taken his seat, and had riven the orders to the prisoners to mount the gallaws, when a telegram was handed to him, and he read out the decision of King Alexander to harm Odohasitch, and to commute the sentence on Jositch to life, and on Mitchiteh to twenty years’ imprisonment. The pardoned men dropped to their knees, crying: “Long live the King!” Odohasitch watched his comrades being snatched from execution in perfect calmness. Turing to the hangman, who was dressed in traditional top hat and fronk coat, he said: “Give me a cigarette. lam ready for you.” He was hanged before the eyes of his pardoned accomplices. —Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20311, 21 October 1929, Page 12
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179AT GALLOW’S FOOT Evening Star, Issue 20311, 21 October 1929, Page 12
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