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Seventeen-year-old Allen 'Al' Britt dies of wounds inflicted on him two days earlier by his girlfirend Frankie Baker, a 22-year-old dancer in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Britt's slaying is said to have inspired the jazz and blues classic song Frankie And Johnny. Britt had been carrying on a relationship with a woman named Alice Pryor. At her trial, Baker will claim that Britt had attacked her with a knife and she merely acted in self-defense. She will be acquitted, eventually dying in 1952 in a Portland, Oregon mental institution.