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1925: Henri Olivier, thyroid donor

March 24th, 2020 Headsman

A gangster named Henri “Le Tigre” Olivier was guillotined in Lille on this date in 1925.

According to eyebrow-raising (but widely circulated) reports, once the Tiger was reduced to a Cadaver, he joined the august line of medicalized corpses for, as noted in the papers of the executioner Anatole Deibler, “In the cemetery, a professor from the Faculty of Lille removed the thyroid gland from him, for transplant to a young girl suffering from paralysis, the operation succeeded perfectly, the child was saved.”

On this day..

• Feast Day of Saint Pigmenius - 2019
• 1673: La Chaussee, for the giblet pie - 2018
• 1823: John Newton, wife-beater - 2017
• 1823: John Newton, violent spouse - 2016
• 1950: Johann Trnka, the last executed in Austria - 2015
• 1873: Mary Ann Cotton, serial poisoner - 2014
• 1936: George W. Barrett, the first to hang for killing an FBI man - 2013
• 2010: Modise Mokwadi Fly, Botswana pol - 2012
• 1882: William Heilwagner, onion weeder - 2011
• 1794: Jacques Hebert and his followers - 2010
• 1945: Max Schlichting, for realism - 2009
• 1944: Ardeatine Massacre - 2008

Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Beheaded,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,France,Guillotine,Murder

Tags: 1920s, 1925, henri olivier, lille, march 24, medicine