Amador Ledger-Dispatch, Volume 1902, Number 3, 3 October 1902 — Indian Headsmen. [ARTICLE]

Indian Headsmen.

Nowhere is to be found a more pompous or a more awe Inspiring person than the headsman, who plays in India the role which the official hangman plays in a European city. '

. His deadly work be performs with great skill, and in his bearing there is a j certain dignity which' 1b never seen in a European hangman. Moreover, while In Europe the populace regards a hangman with a feeling which is partly contempt and partly horror, the people of India respect and fear the public executioner and never seem to think that be has lowered himself in the social scale by accepting the office of headsman. ' ' '

On festive occasions and when arrayed in his robes of office the executioner Is decidedly a picturesque figure and altogether different from the somber and grim hangman of Europe.