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Updated: April 30, 2025
I move against no one save those who deserve death and against whom the death sentence has been pronounced. But when I do move, that man dies." He resumed his seat. The fat man went on. "Is it your wish," he asked, "that Kuzman be authorized by you to arrange this affair?" The murmur of voices was scarcely intelligible.
"Into the hands of every one of you," the fat man continued, "will be placed a strip of paper. You will write upon it 'Yes' or 'No. Kuzman will be instructed according to your verdict." Some one on the platform bustled around. Kendricks and Julien were both supplied with the long strips. In a few minutes these were collected. The man upon the platform turned up the lights a little higher.
The anarchists of Berlin, one of whom, Franz Kuzman, is here to-night, will dispose of Falkenberg for us if we provide sufficient funds to make an escape possible, and an annuity for the executioner should he live, or for his wife should he die." There was a slow, ominous murmur of voices. The fat man on the platform beamed at everybody. "Kuzman is here upon the platform," he announced.
"Does any one wish to hear him?" Kuzman stood up an awkward, rawboned, dark-featured man. In a coat that was too short for him, he stood rather like a puppet upon the platform. "If you delegates of the socialist societies decide that it is just," he said, in a hoarse, unpleasant tone, "I am willing to see that Falkenberg meets his reward. I can say no more. I do not fail.
Of these, thirty-five agree to the appointment of Kuzman for the purpose we have spoken of. Six are against it. One paper I will read to you. The writer has not troubled to put 'Yes' or 'No. This is what I find: "Falkenberg has served his Emperor and his country to the whole extent of his will and his capacity. He has given his life to make his country great.
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