CURIOUS DISPUTE.
ABOUT HANGMAN’S Rui'E
A curious dispute about a hangman's rope, winch will have to be settled by the law courts, lias arisen between the Hungarian hangman, Bali, and the public prosecutor at Temesvar, in Hungary. A numierer bad just been hanged, and the hangman untied the rope and began to cut it into small pieces in order to sell these at an impromptu auction to the crowd waiting outside the prison—-a bit of a hangman’s rope being believed in Hungary to be the best of all possible charms rotbringing good luck. The public pio..editor, however, who has to be present to witness an execution, ordered Bali to baud over the rope to him, because scandalous scenes amounting to a not had occur; ed alter a recent execution at iVlisaulez, when tile crowd lotigal among themselves lor tin. g;i:-T mementoes. The hangman leiirwd give up the rope, on the giounu that it was not only uis perquisite, but actually his own property, as he has to supply ropes at his own expense. The public prosecutor thereupon ordered a policeman to take it from him by force, which was doue. Bali gave notice that he would bring an action for its recovery.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1061, 25 June 1912, Page 4
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202CURIOUS DISPUTE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1061, 25 June 1912, Page 4
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