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IDLE EXECUTIONEERS j SLUMP IN DEATH PENALTIES. -PARIS, Fob. 20. The idleness of executioners has become an affair of State. I Three executioners arc paid £25 a 'year, with fees for ca.ch execution, but there has been only one job among the three in the last eight months, whereas before the war there was at least one or two each month. M. Poincare has promised to consider the men’s grievance. He said that if there was nobody to guillotine the executioners must not starve.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19773, 22 February 1927, Page 5
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87AN EASY TIME Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19773, 22 February 1927, Page 5
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