Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 12 August 1924

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Besumer was in bed with his mistress Harriet Lowe, who died on 5 August 1918, just two days after doctors performed surgery in an effort to repair her partially paralyzed face. Besumer was charged with murder while Lowe was in the hospital and stated that it was Besumer who had attacked her. He served nine months in prison before being acquitted on 1 May 1919 after a ten minute jury deliberation.
(27 June 1918)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Tuesday 12th of August 1924 100 years ago
52-year-old boxer Norman Selby aka Kid McCoy kills his 39-year-old lover Theresa Mors by a single gunshot to the head in Unit 212, 2819 Leeward Avenue, Los Angeles, California, United States. The next morning Selby robbed and held captive some 12 people at Mors' antique shop and shot one man who was trying to escape in the leg. He also had forced at least six other men to remove their trousers after divesting them of their money.