GUILLOTINE IN FRANCE
RETIREMENT OF OFFICIAL. When the occupant of an official position in France retires he is usually given the title of honorary holder of the office, and it is in this sense that Monsieur Anatole Deibler will shortly become “Honorary Executioner to the French Republic.” It was lately announced that M. Deibler is going out of business, and that he is already building the villa in Paris in which he proposes to spend his later years. However, it appears that the appointment, which carries a salary of £l5O a year, and £BO for expenses and assistants, will not go out of the family, for it is said that a nephew of Diebier, whose name is Andre Auprecht, will in future be in command of the guillotine. Executions in France are still nominally public and held in open squares in front of prisons, although specta tors are in fact kept at a distance by troops and by the early hour which is chosen, so that these events are no longer-the spectacular displays which they remained almost until 1914.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 January 1931, Page 2
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