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Robinson fell through the rope on the first attempt to hang him, then painfully strangled to death on the second try. It is commonly thought — thought there does not appear to be any direct evidence for it — that this nationally infamous body-under-the-floorboards murder helped to inspire Edgar Allan Poe‘s classic short story 'The Tell-Tale Heart'.
(16 April 1841)

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		Psychiatrist Karl Augustus Menninger 22 July 1893 (+) is born in Topeka, United States. 18 July 1990 (-) dies of abdominal cancer in Topeka, United States.
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