6 August

William Palmer is born in Rugeley, Staffordshire.

William Palmer Executed

A Staffordshire doctor deep in racing debts, a friend's winnings at Shrewsbury, and a strychnine trial moved to London by Act of Parliament.

In Abilene, Kansas, he fires through a hotel wall and kills Charles Couger.

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.

Crater clears papers from his chambers, has two cheques cashed, buys a theatre ticket and dines on West 45th Street, then disappears.

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.