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George Spillburgh

George Adam Kennedy Spillburg (September 13 1886 - February 26 1924) was a Cascadian carpenter and the assassinator of Cascadian president Francis Lowe (1861-1924). He killed president Francis Lowe on February 23 1924 in Montmorency in a theater when the president was watching a show in the Grand Theater. He shot the president by sneaking out in the window and later on killed a guard on a backstage stair. On February 26 1924 he was executed in the Central Montmorency Jail on an electric chair