Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1898 — Strange Spanish Custom. [ARTICLE]

Strange Spanish Custom.

In some places in Spain, among them Vergara, where Golli, the anarchist, was garroted. an old custom prevails of arresting the executioner immediately after the execution and charging him with murder before the court of justice. "Yes, I killed a man,” answers the executioner, “but I did it in the name of the law, for the benefit of society, and in obedience to the commands of your honor." Then the court discharges him. saying that justice had been done.