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White-bearded, excitable M. Anatole Deibler, as well-known to French newspaper readers as Edouard Herriot, arrived in Bastia last week on professional business. With him he had his son-in-law, Andre Perrier, and a small traveling guillotine. Since 1879 the Deibler family have been guillotineurs to the French Republic...
...hair shaved at the back of the neck. Bandit Spada heard mass kneeling between two guards. Handcuffed, he was then led to the scaffold. It was all over quickly, much to the relief of Executioner Deibler whose machine has been sticking lately (TIME, April 23, 1934). Son-in-law Perrier supervised putting things away, patient in the knowledge that if M. Deibler ever keeps his long-time promise to retire and raise chickens, he will inherit the guillotine business of all France...
Died. Albert St. John Harmsworth, 57, youngest brother of Viscount Rothermere and of the late Lord Northcliffe; in Vergez, France. Paralyzed from the waist down since an automobile accident in 1906. he had invented an electric wheelchair from which to direct his large mineral water business (Perrier) at Vergez. Lord Northcliffe once offered ?100,000 to anyone who could cure his brother, often declared: "He has more brains than all the rest of the Harmsworth family...
Despite the protest of his friends, M. Ernest Perrier, a Swiss delegate to the Disarmament Conference, announced last week "after many months of reflection" his resignation-in order to become a Benedictine monk...
...into a basket, that the body was dumped into a zinc-lined wicker coffin (in which the head was later placed) for delivery to pregnant Mme Gorgulov, that Executioner Anatole ("Monsieur de Paris") Deibler wore his usual derby hat and was assisted by his son-in-law André Perrier who is being groomed to succeed M. Deibler as the next "Monsieur de Paris...