Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1913 — MONEY IN CUTTING OFF HEADS. [ARTICLE]

MONEY IN CUTTING OFF HEADS.

- ■■ , • • t. Woody Guillotine Job Has Paid the Dleblerj Richly. Anatole Diebler, the executioner, of “Monsieur de Paris,” of French ro m&nce, has expressed himself strongly In favor of capital punishment—not on account of the sun s received from the Government for his work —he 1b rich —but for the good of society. Anatoje la the son of the former executioner, who died a few yeirs ago, and whose father was In the same business before him, the bloc dy job being handed down in ,the Diebler family from generation to generation. He has owned two guillotines, both built in the year of 1871, one of the previous machine L being burned by the Communists. Each of these guillotines cost S6OO. The knife, which weighs about fifteen pounds, is worth $lO. The total weight when it falls with Its cast-iron back Is ninety pounds, and it drops from a height of eight and a half feet. Anatole seemingly looks upon the business as a mere “surgical operation.” He has, however, a deep sense of his usefulness to society. Out of the hundred and twelve criminals whom Anatole Diebler has executed only one had reached his fortieth year. All the others were from eighteen to twenty-six years of age. And he asks: “How many more crimes would they have committed had I not put them out of the world?” Diebler is a mild little man, with light blue eyes. He has been In the execution business for more than twenty years, having acted as assistant to his father. His salary is sl,200 per annum, pluß $1,600 for exnenaea. --• ■■■'. • ‘ ' ■