On July 15, 1949 at 12:20 a.m., Jake Bird (1901-1949) is hanged at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla for the ax murders of Bertha Kludt, age 52, and her daughter Beverly June, age 17, in Tacoma on October 30, 1947. More @Wikipedia
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