17 April

Mary Surratt is arrested at her boarding house; Powell arrives during the search and is detained.

Lincoln Assassination Executed

Good Friday, 1865: an actor shoots the president at Ford's Theatre, a manhunt crosses two states, and a military court hangs four conspirators.

The Ford brothers plead guilty to murder, are sentenced to death and are pardoned by Governor Crittenden the same day.

Jesse James Killed before trial

Northfield's townspeople broke the James-Younger gang in seven minutes in 1876. Six years later a new recruit shot Jesse James in his own parlour.

The jury acquits Adelaide Bartlett.

Adelaide Bartlett Acquitted

A London grocer died on New Year's Day 1886 with liquid chloroform in his stomach and no burns in his throat. His wife was tried for murder and acquitted.