Diary of a Hangman

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Ernstin, when she brought forth her child alive in Master Beheimb’s house, herself crushed its little skull and locked the body in a trunk. The language used is occasionally archaic, for example the translator uses ‘incendiary’ where we would be more familiar with the term ‘arsonist’. I was glad that I had read “The Faithful Executioner” prior to this; it provided some of the extra background information that Franz Schmidt himself did not feel necessary to record.

It caused me to wonder if human nature is present in this text as it is today, and maybe it's just the crimes and executions that have changed some. When they were being led out, the Margrave’s wife wanted to see the poor sinners as they passed, and saw her own husband among them, whom she embraced and kissed, for she had not known her husband had been arrested, nor that he was a fellow of that sort. Find signed collectible books: 'The necessity of a national reformation of manners; or, the duty of magistrates, ministers, and all others, to put the laws in execution against . Barthel Meussel, of Mehrenhüel, a murderer, who single handed committed two murders; the first at Bamberg at the mill-weir, when he stabbed a man and took his money, the other at Welckendorff on the mountains, when he cut the throat of a man who was sleeping with him on the straw in a shed, and took his money—beheaded at Hollfeld and exposed on the wheel.

The actual diary itself has various things omitted as well, strangely various entries, at least in my copy just have the word, " do" put in without anything else. Lots of people have their heads cut off "as a favour" to avoid the worse fates of hanging out the wheel, which are reserved for the worst offenders. I thought it was going to be slightly different and offer a look into the executioner and not just a chronological listing of the people he killed.To clarify, this is less a "diary" in the sense of "a text recording personal thoughts and feelings" but more in the direction of recording what happened. It's interesting to know how things like this were dealt with in the past and in other countries, and how much we've changed and improved. Eight years later, in September 1932, after another bout of heavy drinking, Ellis died by suicide, cutting his throat with a razor. George Presigel of Gnotzga, who killed his wife and afterwards hanged her so that it might be supposed she had hanged and destroyed herself; had also formerly stabbed a man. A bit disappointed as I had expected a diary where Master Franz Schmidt detailed not only the morbid deeds of his job as an executioner, but - more interesting - any moral conflict he felt at doing what he had to do (after all, some of the crimes for which an execution were handed out were beyond paltry by today's standards - small-time theft, infidelity).