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Harry Meadows
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Harry Meadows was a pensioner and accidental killer. In 1961, 87-year-old Harry Meadows, a resident at the Haslemere Home for the Elderly in Great Yarmouth, England, achieved late-in-life notoriety when he accidentally killed another 3 residents of his care home by dressing up as the grim reaper and peering through the residents' lounge window whilst holding a scythe. The year before Harry's performance, another resident of the same home, the then 81 year old Gladys Elton, for reasons best known to herself, had conceived the idea of performing a striptease for her fellow residents of the home; unfortunately such was the effect of Elton's performance that it caused the death of one resident by way of a cardiac arrest and the treatment for shock of five other residents. The home was forced to shut as a result of these two incidents. Source *Brewer's Rogues, Villains & Eccentrics Page 240. ISBN 0-304-35728-6 - edited by William Donaldson. See Also
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