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The execution took place in the large hall of the jail, used as a dining-room, and was witnessed by about 300 persons. The gallows was erected at the north end of the hall, and consisted of a cross-beam supported by two uprights. A rope, to the end of which was attached a hook, passed over a pulley in the centre of the cross beam, and thence down one of the uprights through the floor. Attached to the end were five fifty-sixty pound weights, held by a catch, so arranged that by springing it with a treadle the weights would fall a distance of six feet.
(12 January 1860)

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S 24th Street 2843, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

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Tuesday 28th of January 1958 (-) — Victim of Charles Starkweather aka Little Red Chester Ward is shot dead by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red.
Both 50-year-old Clara Olson Ward and 51-year-old maid Ludmila Lilyan Fencl were already murdered earlier that day by stabbing. Starkweather also snapped the neck of the family dog Suzy.