3 August

At a robbery of the Point Arena to Duncans Mills stage he leaves his first verse signed Black Bart.

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.

John Morse, the sisters' uncle, arrives to stay at the house; the household has been ill for days.

Lizzie Borden Acquitted

Andrew and Abby Borden were killed in their Fall River home in 1892. A jury took barely an hour to acquit his daughter Lizzie. No one else was charged.

Crater leaves Maine for New York for the last time, promising to be back for his wife's birthday.

Judge Crater Unsolved

On 6 August 1930 a New York judge left a Midtown chophouse and was never seen again. The 'missingest man in America' and the Tammany scandal around him.