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.
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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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