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254:, which was located near the exchange agency, reported to the police that one of their guests had been behaving in a very strange and anxious manner, and that this guest had left the hotel with an oblong package. The guest turned out to be Alfred Ander. A large suitcase found in his hotel room contained numerous items that could be connected to the murder, among them the murdered clerk's wallet as well as most of the stolen money, partially blood-stained. 297:
He also asked to say a few last words, but was, surprisingly, denied to do so by the executioner. Shortly thereafter, Ander was ordered to lie down on the guillotine, to which he complied without any need for force. The rope was then pulled. Ander reportedly shuddered just before his head fell into
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During the trial, Ander claimed that he had received the money from a foreign (and unknown) man, whom he had met during his stay at a hotel in Stockholm. He never admitted to the crime, but was sentenced to death by all court instances, and he never appealed to the King to be reprieved (however, an
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in 1903). There have been claims that Ander's excessive drinking and mistreatment of his wife were, at least partially, the reasons for the economic failures. In 1900, he was imprisoned for a few small crimes but managed to escape. In all, by the time of his final conviction, he had been sentenced
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ferries, who recognized Ander and remembered where he went. The oblong package which had been observed by hotel staff was also found during the arrest and contained the apparent murder weapon, a
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the zinc bucket fastened onto the guillotine. It was the first execution in Sweden in more than a decade, and the last ever to be carried out.
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Ander sought a way to find a solution to his money problems, and for weeks he had been seen observing an exchange agency,
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Ander appeared mostly calm during the execution, even greeting the execution team with "God morgon, mina herrar!"
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Ander's body was donated to science. Doctors concluded that, at the time of his death, he suffered from
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in Swedish and foreign notes at the agency (nearly 200,000 SEK in 2010 equivalent).
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application for clemency was made by his father). Clemency was refused by King
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in 1920, respectively. The last woman to have been executed in Sweden was
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The only person to be executed in Sweden following the instatement of the
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Sveriges siste skarprÀttare, A. G. Dalman: föregÄngare och förrÀttningar
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imported from France, the only instance in which it was used in Sweden.
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Sweden's last executioner, A. G. Dalman: predecessor and ordinances
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Swedish murderer and the last person to be executed in the country
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Ander was subsequently arrested during nighttime near
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Alfred Ander

Ljusterö
Sweden
LĂ„ngholmen Prison
Stockholm
Sweden
Execution by guillotine
Swedish citizenship
Executed
Conviction(s)
Murder
Death
executed in Sweden
guillotine
Ljusterö
Vaxholm Artillery Corps
Vaxholm
StrÀngnÀs
Helsinki
Karlsudd
Stockholm
Swedish kronor
Vaxholm
archipelago
steelyard balance
Gustaf V
LĂ„ngholmen Prison
guillotine
tuberculosis

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