ASKED TO BE EXECUTED.
The spectacle was witnessed the other day. in a Berlin court or a prisoner craving with a low bow permission lo be executed. The man was being tried for embezzlement. He informed the Court that he had already ordered the axe and the block (decapitation. by the headsman is the form of capital punishment in Prussia), and also a cofrin. and would be much obliged*if they would sentence him to •death. Medical evidence testified that: the prisoner was insane, and he was ordered to a lunatic asylum.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 30 June 1920, Page 4
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