Deadly Birthday Chase: George Millet

Deadly Birthday Chase: George Millet

George Millet, an American teenager who worked as an office boy at an insurance company in the Metropolitan Life Building in New York City, died in 1909 while fleeing from six young women stenographers who were chasing him to give him kisses for his 15th birthday. He had an ink eraser in his breast pocket, and as he fell forward while trying to evade the women, the eraser's point pierced his heart, killing him.

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