Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 19 August 1895

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

Only hours before he was escorted to the electric chair Gaskins tried to commit suicide by slitting his wrists with a razor blade he had swallowed the previous week, then coughed up.
(6 September 1991)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Monday 19th of August 1895 131 years, 5 months and 17 days ago
Outlaw, gunfighter and folk icon John Wesley Hardin aka Little Arkansaw is shot in the back of the head by 56-year-old lawman John Selman at the age of 42 in Acme Saloon, 101 N. Mesa, El Paso, Texas, United States. As Hardin lay dead on the floor Selman fired three more shots into him.