Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 24 May 1917

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The train was carrying about 1000 passengers. Grief-stricken relatives came to the scene and nearly lynched the surviving locomotive engineer who took refuge in a police station. The train conductors also fled.
(20 March 1946)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Thursday 24th of May 1917 109 years, 7 months and 18 days ago
Dentist and murderer Arthur Warren Waite aka The Playboy Poisoner is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 28 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States. He poisoned his mother-in-law Hannah Peck and his father-in-law John E. Peck with germs of diphtheria and tuberculosis between 30 January and 12 March 1916.