13 August

The couple arrive at Le Glandier, where Marie writes asking to be released from the marriage.

Marie Lafarge Convicted

A Parisian bride, a crumbling former monastery in Corrèze, a husband dead of 'cholera', and the Marsh test that made toxicology a courtroom science.

Charles Boles enlists in the 116th Illinois Infantry.

Black Bart Convicted

A polite robber in a flour-sack mask held up Wells Fargo stagecoaches for eight years. A laundry mark on a dropped handkerchief led detectives to his door.

The gang robs the bank at Montpelier, Idaho.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Killed before trial

From Telluride to the Wild Bunch, Patagonia and a mule with the wrong brand: the trail that ended at San Vicente, Bolivia, in November 1908.

Smith is hanged at Maidstone Prison by John Ellis.

George Joseph Smith Executed

Three newly married women drowned in small baths in three towns. A grieving father's newspaper cutting exposed the bigamist behind all of them.