FOUR MEN HUNG
GRUESOAIE SCENES,
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
(Received this day at 12.25. p.m.) BELGRADE, February 20.
Four ,'Jugo-Slav bandits sentenced for murder and robbery were executed tit Zagreb with a gruesomeness now rarely witnessed on this side of the Orient. Separate gallows six feet high were erected 'for each in the courtyard overnight and they were executed one by one in the presence of one another. Each occupied twelve minutes. The indictment: was read out by the President of Zagreb Senate in a frockcoat and high silk hat. Throe acted stoically. One smoking a cigarette turned to the journalists aid said: “ Send a good report of the execution.” A second looked to the sky and said: “ Farewell beautiful day.” The fourth, while watching bis companions, simulated insanity, prayed and shouted to the assembled crowd. The executioner, unnerved by the ordeal of hanging the other throe, failed thrice to adjust the rope, whereupon the bandit brushed him aside, shouting: ‘‘Get out. Your hands and brains are frozen. Let me complete the ioh,” and calmly placing the rope round his neck as though tying a tie on hiinsell, and then kicked the trap.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 February 1929, Page 5
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