Vulcana
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Miriam Kate Williams sometimes called Kate Roberts and better known by her stage name Vulcana, was a Welsh strongwoman. With strongman William Hedley Roberts, better known as Atlas, she toured music h
Vulcana in 1900
Vulcana flexing on the cover of La Santé par les Sports
Hawley Harvey Crippen
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Hawley Harvey Crippen, colloquially known as Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser who was hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, for the murder of his s
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…of her friend, Cora Crippen, who performed as Belle Ellmore, ultimately leading to the investigation, prosecution and execution of Cora's husband, Dr. Hawley Crippen. On 4 June 1921 the Garrick Theatre in Edinburgh caught fire on an evening of the Society Athletes' performance. Vulcana risked her life to save another…
Crippen, c. 1910
Corrine "Cora" Turner, aka Belle Elmore
Crippen, disguised, after his arrest
Alleged scar tissue used in evidence at the trial, claimed to be that of Cora Crippen