5 August

Anna Schneider, eight months pregnant, is attacked in her bed and survives.

Axeman of New Orleans Unsolved

In 1918-19 an intruder with an axe terrorized New Orleans, above all its Italian grocers. He was never caught, and his famous jazz letter may be a hoax.

Deputy Eugene Moore is killed at a dance in Stringtown, Oklahoma, the first lawman the gang kills.

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.