THE AUSTRIAN EXECUTIONER.
Jo Austria, where capital offences are punished by hanging, the executioner is • Government official with a fixed salary and certain perqnisites, and a staff of helpers under him. He is attired in a showy uniform with a cooked hat and jack boots, and rides up to the scaffold on a prancing steed under a military escort. Conspicuous are the new white cloves worn in performing his functions •nd thrown off afterwards never to be vied again. This functionary is not chosen from the scam of the population nor is he treated with contumacy. As ' was the case in France, the office is con. fined very mjjoh to one family, decending from father to son. A clumsy execution or an unseemly exhibitional the gallows, snch as we in this country ■ are too familiar with, is a thing impos,r aible in Austria. The Henker as he is 'styled in other parts of Germany, combines with his ghastly duties the business of capturing all stray dogs found -in the highways and streets unmuzzled.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3504, 28 June 1884, Page 3
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173THE AUSTRIAN EXECUTIONER. South Canterbury Times, Issue 3504, 28 June 1884, Page 3
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