EXECUTIONERS IN INDIA.
Nowhere is to be found a more
pompous or a more awe-inspiring person than the headsman, who plays in India the role which the official hangman plays in a European city. His deadly work he performs with great skill, and in his bearing there is a certain dignity which is never seen in a European hangman. Moreover, while in Europe the populace regard a hangman with a feeling which is partly contempt and partly horror, the people of India respect and fear the public executioner, and never seem to think that he has lowered himself in the social scale by accepting the office of headsman. On festive occasions, and when arrayed in his robes of office, the executioner is decidedly a picturesque figure, and altogether different from the sombre and grim hangman of Europe.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 25 September 1912, Page 7
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