File:18251112 Nine-pin bowler execution - gallows humor - Sag Harbor Corrector.jpg

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English: Clipping from newspaper (The Corrector, Sag Harbor, New York, U.S., November 12, 1825)
  • The 1825 newspaper used a gallows humor "story" of a criminal whose last wish before being beheaded was to go nine-pin bowling, using his own severed head on his final roll, and taking delight in having achieved a strike.
  • U.S. newspaper source quotes "a late German newspaper" as source for the story.
  • "Bowl" sometimes means ball in modern parlance
  • Nine-pin bowling preceded modern ten-pin bowling
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Source https://newspaperarchive.com/sag-harbor-corrector-nov-12-1825-p-1/
Author The Corrector (newspaper of Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York, U.S., 1825)

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Clipping from newspaper (The Corrector, Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York, U.S., November 12, 1825) showing gallows humor of a criminal being beheaded while bowling, using his own severed head as his final roll

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