Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 15 September 1997

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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.
(18 September 1868)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Monday 15th of September 1997 28 years ago
43-year-old mass murderer Hastings Arthur Wise kills four co-workers because of a termination of employment in R. E. Phelon Company, 2063 University Pkwy, Aiken, South Carolina, United States. Wise fatally shot 56-year-old Charles Griffeth, 30-year-old David Wayne Moore, 31-year-old Ernest Leonard Filyaw and 27-year-old Esther Sheryl Wood. After Wise reached the upper floor of the plant he lay down and swallowed insecticide in a suicide attempt. He was semi-conscious when police located him.