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English: Poor Tobriz "that was his name" was violently opposed to the introduction of the guillotine in Algeria. In the days of his prosperity an enormous sabre was passed through his flaming girdle. In the early years of the French conquest Tobriz was employed in the decapitations, which were executed with a saw, and must have been a horrible spectacle. He remembered well the execution of the hundred counterfeiters in one night, and their heads exposed in the market
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Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science April, 1873, Vol. XI, No. 25.

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