A DISMAL QUEUE.
SUICIDES OF HANGMEN. (Received 7.25 p.m.) London, May 6.—The “Daily Express’s” Berlin correspondent states that Sch weitz, the executioner who succeeded Spaethe, committed suicide in a similar manner at Breslau after trying to relieve poverty by exhibiting an axe on which were engraved tho names of 123 victims.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Wairarapa Age, 8 May 1924, Page 5
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53A DISMAL QUEUE. Wairarapa Age, 8 May 1924, Page 5
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