Pevensey Prior to 1913. And the Death of an American Outlaw.

            The Postcard

A postcard bearing no publisher's name. The image is a real photograph.

The card was posted in Eastbourne using a ½d. stamp on the 2nd. September 1913. It was sent to:

Miss Milstead,
27, Park Road,
Bromley,
Kent.

The pencilled message on the divided back, written in a very childish hand, was as follows:

"Dear Aunty,
We are having a
lovely time."

Two Fatal Rail Crashes

So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?

Well, the 2nd. September 1913 was not a good day for railway safety, as there were two separate fatal crashes on that day:

- A collision between two trains on the 
New York, New Haven and Hartford 
Railroad in New Haven, Connecticut 
killed 21 passengers and injured 30.

- A rear-end collision between two 
sections of the London-Scotland 
express at Carlisle, England caused 
a fire that burned 15 passengers to 
death.

Bill Shankly

The day also marked the birth in Glenbuck, Scotland of Bill Shankly, Scottish association football player and manager, and midfielder for Preston from 1933 to 1949.  Bill was also in the Scotland national football team from 1938 to 1949, and coach for Liverpool from 1959 to 1964.

Bill suffered a cardiac arrest early in the morning of the 29th. September 1981, and was certified dead at 01:20, twenty-seven days after his 68th. birthday. 

Bill was cremated at the Anfield Crematorium on the 2nd. October, and his ashes were scattered on the Anfield pitch at the Kop end.

Thomas Sperry

The 2nd. September 1913 also marked the death of Thomas Sperry, who was born in 1864. He was an American entrepreneur and co-founder of S&H Green Stamps.

Sperry died in NYC at the age of 49 years of ptomaine poisoning contracted during the return voyage after a two-month trip to Europe. 

Sperry was brought ashore on a stretcher, and his condition was too bad to travel to his home in Cranford.

Bill Miner

Bill Miner also died on that day. Bill, who was born in 1847, was  an American outlaw, nicknamed 'The Gentleman Robber'. 

He is reputed to have come up with the phrase "Hands up!"
   

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