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The origins of the Nachtkrapp legends are still unknown, but a connection possibly exists to rook infestations in Central Europe. Already feared due to their black feathers and scavenging diet, the mass gatherings quickly became an existential threat to farmers and gave rooks and crows their place in folklore as all-devouring monsters.
Women were crushed to death at a train station. [63] 6: 5 October 2007: Unnamed: North Korea: Sunchon: Crush after a crowd of 15,000 watched a public execution in a stadium, 34 others injured. [64] 11: 9 February 2008: 2008 Bandung stampede: Indonesia: Bandung: Crush at the launching album concert of the metal band Beside. 9: 27 March 2008 ...
Date of execution Name Race Age at execution Age at offense State Method Ref. 1 November 2, 1984 Margie Velma Barfield: White 52 45 North Carolina: Lethal injection [3] 2 February 3, 1998 Karla Faye Tucker: 38 23 Texas [4] 3 March 30, 1998 Judias "Judy" V. Buenoano: 54 28 Florida: Electrocution [5] 4 February 24, 2000 Betty Lou Beets: 62 46 ...
Ruth Ellis (née Neilson; 9 October 1926 – 13 July 1955) was a Welsh nightclub hostess and convicted murderer who became the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom following the fatal shooting of her lover, David Blakely.
Meanwhile, the Crow camp organized a big war party to strike first and drive the enemies out of the Crow country. The two Indian armies crossed each other unnoticed during the night. The Crows lost the track and never found the camps on the Powder River. [5]: pp. 24-25 The Cheyenne and Lakota attacked the unprotected Crow camp at noon.
Catherine Ann Stevens was born in Borough Green, Kent, England.She was educated at home, spending most of her childhood in Kent. She married an army officer, Major John Crowe (1783–1872) and had a son, John William Crowe (1824–1901), but the marriage was an unhappy one, and when she met Sydney Smith and his family at Clifton, Bristol in 1828, she asked them for their help.
Allegedly exchanged insults and blows with two Irishmen who accused him and a friend of bothering two white women on the street. Hanged from a pile driver by a crowd of fifty to seventy-five Irishmen. Jacob Hamilton: 28: Smyrna: Kent and New Castle: Delaware: October 11, 1861: Believed to have assaulted a white woman in her home.
On the night of September 5, 1912, a white woman named Ellen Grice [b] alleged that a black man entered her bedroom. [ c ] Awakened by him, she screamed, which caused him to flee. [ 3 ] Within days, Forsyth County Sheriff William Reid detained Toney Howell as a suspect, along with alleged accomplices Johnny Bates, Fate Chester, Isaiah Pirkle ...