Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 6 February 1897

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

A rope made of red and white silk was used to hang Cluverius. The intention was to cut it into pieces to sell as souvenirs after the hanging. Herbert Tobias Ezekiel who witnessed the hanging, wrote that the Sheriff had oiled the rope with sweet oil rather than cold grease which would have facilitated the slipping of the noose and broken Cluverius’s neck. When the trap was sprung the silk rope stretched until Cluverius’s feet were just inches from the ground. The loop extended nearly eighteen inches above his head and it took ten minutes for him to slowly strangle to death.
(14 January 1887)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Saturday 6th of February 1897 129 years, 0 months and 19 days ago
18-year-old serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf is diagnosed as suffering from an incurable mental disease in Provinzial Heil- und Pflegeanstalt, Langenhagen, Niedersachsen, Germany. Between 1918 and 1924 Haarmann killed 27 boys and young men in Hannover.