Folkerts fatally shot 46-year-old Dutch policeman Arie Kranenburg and seriously wounded a second officer in a shootout. Elisabeth von Dyck, originally mistaken for Brigitte Mohnhaupt, managed to escape. (22 September 1977)
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Friday 18th of September 1868 (-) — Horse thief and murderer Melvin Baughn is executed by hanging. Baughn's execution was conducted inside of a canvass enclosure in front of the jail in Seneca. A rope was stretched on stakes about twenty feet from the enclosure and twenty guards armed with muskets and bayonets were stationed on the outside of the rope to keep back the crowd.