Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 3 February 1903

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Wall was sentenced to death for a series of fatal floggings in 1782. On 10 July 1782 Sergeant Benjamin Armstrong and George Robinson each received 800 lashes and on 11 July Corporal Thomas Upton received 350 lashes, Private George Paterson 800 lashes, William Evans 800 lashes, Joseph Shaw 275 lashes and Private Henry Fawcett 47 lashes. From their wounds Corporal Upton died on the 13th, Sergeant Armstrong on the 15th, and George Paterson on 19 July. With a reward of £200 for his capture Wall had been living under an assumed name in France and Italy.
(28 January 1802)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 3rd of February 1903 122 years ago
Baby farm murderess Annie Walters aka the Finchley Baby Farmers (with Amelia Sach) is executed by hanging by William Billington at the age of 34 in Holloway Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Walters was hanged together with Amelia Sach and they became the first women to be hanged at Holloway in what was the only double hanging of women to be carried out in modern times.