Higgins had cancerous growths removed from his mouth in 1994 and 1996. He lost his teeth after intensive radiotherapy used to treat his throat cancer and had been living on liquid food, often Guinnes, for the last years of his life. (24 July 2010)
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Tuesday 28th of November 1911 (-) — Showman and circus proprietor George Sanger is murdered with a hatchet at his home by his employee Herbert Charles Cooper for unknown reasons. Cooper then committed suicide by putting his head on a railway line.