SinisterCrimes

On this day

6 April

  1. 1896

    Selman, awaiting retrial, is killed by Deputy US Marshal George Scarborough.

    John Wesley Hardin Convicted

    A preacher's son who killed a deputy on his 21st birthday served sixteen years, came out a lawyer, and was shot from behind in an El Paso saloon in 1895.

  2. 1934

    Constable Cal Campbell is killed near Commerce, Oklahoma.

    Bonnie and Clyde Killed before trial

    Two years, at least nine dead lawmen and a posse waiting in the Louisiana pines: the real Barrow gang, from Eastham prison farm to the ambush at Gibsland.