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L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, in a 1911 photo. October 7 – Outlaw Elmer McCurdy and "associates" are chased after trying to rob a train in Oklahoma. McCurdy on the run is eventually hunted down and shot by authorities. His body is never claimed and later is chemically petrified.
As Schrank was subdued and held up on his feet, the crowd went into a frenzy. Several of the closest men around Schrank began pummeling him, and others screamed "kill him!", and "hang him!". Roosevelt, seeing what was happening, shouted to the crowd, "Don't hurt him. Bring him here. I want to see him."
Three days after a botched train robbery, Elmer McCurdy, 31, was shot and killed by lawmen in Oklahoma. McCurdy would achieve fame 65 years later. McCurdy would achieve fame 65 years later. In December 1976, a TV crew discovered that a dummy on display in an amusement park in Long Beach, California, was actually McCurdy's mummified body.
25, March 1911 Elmer McCurdy, 3 other men Elmer and his men robbed a Missouri Pacific Railroad train and found a safe filled with $4,000, Elmer used his military experience to put nitroglycerin on the safe and blew it open. However it was too much and most of the money was destroyed and they only made out with $100-500 worth of melted sliver coins.
1911 March 25: 146 employees, mostly women, are killed in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire near Washington Square Park, some by being forced to jump from the building by the fire. [85] July: 1911 Eastern North America heat wave. New York Public Library Main Branch building constructed. Negro Society for Historical Research established. [36]
A man whose daughter died in last week's mass shooting at a Florida high school gave an enraged speech during a listening session at the White House on Wednesday, telling President Donald Trump ...
In retaliation he shot and killed eight coworkers and injured two others before committing suicide. May 20, 2010 West Memphis, Arkansas: 4 [n 1] 2 6: 2010 West Memphis police shootings: A father and son shot two police officers during a traffic stop, killing both, before getting into a shootout with officers in a Walmart parking lot. In the ...
The National Council of the Boy Scouts of America was established at 200 Fifth Avenue in New York, with seven employees. [7]Manuel Bonilla declared his intention to return to his former post as President of Honduras after he and his forces landed on that nation's Atlantic coast, near Puerto Cortez.