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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1926
Page
8
Santiago Cuba July 7. Salva tore Aguilera faces garroting at 6 to 7 tomorrow morning for beating his aunt to death. No Cuban execution in two decades. The garotte uses a brass collar with an adjustable screw to strike the neck. A quarter to half turn completes the method.
A condemned man is strapped to a chair with a gazotte attached to a post. The screw device, a relic of the Spanish regime in Cuba, is claimed to cause an almost painless death by breaking the spinal column.
President Coolidge expresses satisfaction with Congress's record at the session ending last Saturday. An outline from the White House says constructive work was accomplished and no vetoes were necessary on any bill of general importance.
The session marked by favorable action on key proposals. He notes tax reductions as a major accomplishment and cites ratification of war debt settlements, along with passage of the railway labor act, the cooperative marketing bill, the public buildings bill and aviation legislation.
Mrs. William P. King and Mrs. Wirt W. Hansbrough have returned to their home in Front Royal Virginia after visiting Mrs. S. H. Hansbrough as their host.
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