Keywords: Tobriz.png en 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 1873 http //www clipart-history com/index php id 1858 pic 8328 Lippincott ™s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science April 1873 Vol XI No 25 Available from www gutenberg org Custom license marker 2012 04 10 PD-old Uploaded with UploadWizard Algeria in the 1830s |