EXECUTIONER'S SUICIDE.
FOLLOWS HIS PREDECESSOR.
. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 8.65 p.m.) ' LONDON. May 6.
The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Express states that Schweitz, who was ceedod Spaethe as' execution z committed suicide at Breslau as his predecessor also did. Schweitz first endeavoured to relieve his poverty by exhibiting the executioner's axe .on which, were engraved the names of 125 victims.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18703, 8 May 1924, Page 9
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