About a dozen people attended and Louis Wilkinson read excerpts from the Gnostic Mass, The Book of the Law, and Hymn to Pan. Crowley's ashes were sent to Karl Germer in the United States, who buried them in his garden in Hampton, New Jersey. (5 December 1947)
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Friday 16th of April 1841 (-) — Murderer Peter Robinson is executed by hanging. 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'.