A GHASTLY EXHIBITION.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 112, 7 December 1905, Page 2

A GHASTLY EXHIBITION.

Telegraph Press Assodatioa Copyt^bt Noumiu, December 7. Henatis, an Arab recidirinto, fo«nd guilty of the murder of a fellow prisoner at the Isle of Pines, was publicly guil- • lotmed in the presence of 1000 spectators at daylight this morning in th» public square, Noumea, in order to aero asanesample to the Arab population. The culprit was brought to Se ccafiold ma vehicle escorted by gendarmes. Th» guillotine, with. « coffin alonsside. wa» surrounded by 100 sbldienTlhe iUftl executioner recently died. Hit successor, through, nervousness, bupclsd tha affiuv, only dwapiUting the culprit •fter the knife had fajlefthree times. The operation occupied 15 minutes.