EXECUTIONER SUICIDES
A GRUESOME EXHIBIT. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, May 7. (Received May 7, 11.0 p.m.) The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Express states that Schwartz, the executioner. who was successor to Spaethe, who committed suicide, also ended his own life at Breslau, after trying to relieve his poverty by exhibiting the axe whereon were engraved the names of its 123 victims.
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Southland Times, Issue 19238, 8 May 1924, Page 5
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68EXECUTIONER SUICIDES Southland Times, Issue 19238, 8 May 1924, Page 5
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