People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1894 — Suicide of the Public Hangman. [ARTICLE]

Suicide of the Public Hangman.

Melbourne, Jan. 10.—Jones, the public hangman of Victoria, has committed suicide by cutting his throat, because he was not willing to execute Mrs. Khorr, a woman sentenced to death for causing the death of infants whom she received at a so-called “baby-farm.”