GUILLOTINE USED
LEIPZIG EXECUTION AXE ORDER IGNORED (Received Sept. 20, noon.) BERLIN, Sept. 28. Disregarding Gen era I Goering’s order to use the axe at all executions, the guillotine ,\vas employed at Leipzig’s lirst execution for 15 years. The prison governor in gala uniform, town councillors, robed lawyers engaged in the prosecution and defence, witnessed the guillotining ,of a murderer.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18206, 29 September 1933, Page 7
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