10 April

The carpet bag holding Doris Marmon and Harry Simmons is dragged from the Thames at Caversham.

Amelia Dyer Executed

For £10 'Mrs Harding' promised a mother's love to babies born outside marriage. In 1896 the Thames at Reading gave up what she had done with them.

During the night of 10 to 11 April the Just Judges panel, with Saint John the Baptist on its reverse, is stolen from the cathedral.

Ghent Altarpiece theft Unsolved

In April 1934 a panel of van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece was stolen and held to ransom. The man who seemed to know where it was died before he could say.

She dies in Strathfield, New South Wales, aged 100.

Constance Kent Convicted

A three-year-old taken from his cot in a Wiltshire country house in 1860. Five years later his half-sister walked into Bow Street and confessed.