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Bürgermeister Gustave Schoen
Well, I'll show you. I'll show you. Now, ah, here it is. "And on this day was von Haussmann hanged from a gibbet in the public square, after being convicted on a proven charge of vampirism. And on this same day, there did occur the departure of the bats—thousands of horrible flying creatures which infested the town for weeks. And on the night of this same day, February 13, in the year of our Lord 1643, was there a stake driven through von Haussmann's heart, and his head cut off with a gravedigger's shovel." There.