Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom || Hull Prison

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The train plunged off a poorly constructed bridge. The survivors were led, carried and conveyed on sleds to hotels and private houses in the town, there being no hospital. However, people assisting also stole money and valuables from the survivors and dead, $1500 (about $33000 today). Bridge designer Amasa Stone committed suicide seven years later after experiencing financial difficulties with some foundries he had interests in, suffering from severe ulcers that kept him from sleeping and scorn from the public over the disaster.
(29 December 1876)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

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Hull Prison

Kingston upon Hull, West Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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Wednesday 19th of December 1934 (-) — Murderess Ethel Major is executed by hanging by Thomas Pierrepoint, assisted by his nephew Albert Pierrepoint.
Major was the last person and only woman to be executed at Hull Prison.
Thursday 14th of November 1957 (x) — Serial killer Ian Brady is released from the borstal after serving two years for theft.