At the beginning of the second act, a dance number in the popular Drury Lane musical 'Mr. Bluebeard', was in progress when an arc light shorted out and sparks ignited a muslin curtain. (30 December 1903)
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Carliol Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom.
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Wednesday 10th of August 1910 (-) — Murderer John Dickman is executed by hanging by John Ellis. It has been suggested that Dickman was also guilty of two previous murders, of Caroline Mary Luard at Ightham, Kent in 1908 and Hermann Cohen in Sunderland in 1909.