Mobbing an Executioner.
Tjii: oflicc of Public Executioner at Vienna is not a very deniable position. A lew o\iys since this official, accompanied by two at sistants, went to Trieste to polich oil soi "ne poor wie,tch who was under sentence ot vieath. While sipping beer in a 'brasserie' thej' weic recognised and the place was" immediately turned into a battle-Held. They wero mobbed, and nairowly escaped with .their lives to the nearest police station. The proprietor of the ' bra&f-erie ' then broke the fila&.ses out of which they had been drvnking, and aftor chopping up the chairs upon which they had been sitting, he made a bonfire of them in the sbveet. The principal barber in Trieste was obliged to publish a caul in all the local papers denying the mmour that the executioner had been .shaved in his shop, a.s in consequence of the ptory Kettin^ abioaci, every | one of lua regular customers ret used to continue their patronage.
M. Floquct it n dimimillvo msm, uith a largo head and a Hue crop of white hair.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 291, 18 August 1888, Page 3
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177Mobbing an Executioner. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 291, 18 August 1888, Page 3
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