Show Hermit Messenger of Death In Greece the death penalty Is Said to be often pronounced but the difficulty culty of obtaining executioners was for a long time Insuperable I was at last surmounted by giving to a murderer the choice between his own death or the acceptance of the office of executioner cxecutoncr The man lives alone In an old tower built by Venetians on an islet outside the port of Nauplla where necessaries are taken to him every morning by the boatman who Is I careful to exchange no word with him Twice a year a steamer calls for him and his instruments of death and he leaves upon a tour of executions New York Tribune |