24 August

Blood dies at his home in Westminster.

Colonel Blood Convicted

In 1671 Thomas Blood flattened King Charles II's crown with a mallet and ran for the Tower gate. He was caught, then pardoned and given an Irish estate.

Texas Rangers arrest Hardin on a train at Pensacola, Florida.

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.

Police ban Voigt from living in the Berlin area as an ex-convict; he stays on unregistered.

Captain of Köpenick Convicted

In 1906 an unemployed shoemaker in a second-hand captain's uniform commandeered a squad of soldiers, arrested a mayor and walked off with the town's cash.

Luise Lenzen and Gertrud Hamacher are killed on their way home from a fair at Flehe.

Peter Kürten Executed

For fifteen months Düsseldorf hunted a killer it could not see. The break came from a survivor's letter, misaddressed and opened at the post office.