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Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1932, Page 3

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SCENES AT THE EXECUTION.

CROWD LAUGH, DANCE AND SING

BARIS,' September' T 8

On his Way to the scaffold, .Gougoloff- who Was executed for the . murder of . President) Douiner; sent a 'message to his Wife K> askmg hefr forgiveness and expressing the. hope that if the child she is expectifig; iL* a.bby he Will become a doctor. ' '

A covered - cart bfought , the guillotine to the front, of the Shiite. Prison in sqctions, and- three youthful mechanics erected it a s unconcernedly as if. it was a . crane. When it was ready another van appeared, and’‘out stumb.ee! Gougoloff; ' , f . ■! ‘ The. official spectators uncovered, the only exception being the executioner., Deibler, who. wore the traditional , tall hat and long black; clriiik. Soon it was all over, and a cart removed the remains, while-GougolqffV counsel, M. Geraud, described his last moments to assembled journalists. * . The .huge crow'ds .that wmited night were not gratified with a close view, nobody without a, perihit beiqg: allqweu within half a mile of the prison. , ■ Men and! Women in eyeiinig dress thronged; tlie adjheent • Montmartre -cafes, : while mariy, as they hurried a=> close as possible to! the ssene, lriflglieflf sang, and even danced, with loss decoruni than if-forming a queue for' a foo.iball match;' ' ; ' , . ' ‘ *