19 December

Turpin and five others rob the farmer Ambrose Skinner at Barking.

Dick Turpin Executed

No night ride to York, no Black Bess: the real Dick Turpin was an Essex gang robber and killer, hanged at York in 1739 for stealing horses.

Initials are noticed on the maul; that night John and Elizabeth Williamson and Bridget Harrington are killed at the King's Arms.

Ratcliff Highway murders Disputed verdict

Seven people killed in two East London households twelve days apart in 1811. The suspect hanged himself before trial, and doubts have outlived him.

Four bandits believed to include Cassidy and Longabaugh rob the Banco de la Nación at Villa Mercedes, Argentina.

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.

After a brief showing at the Uffizi, the painting is formally handed to the French ambassador in Rome.

Mona Lisa theft Convicted

In 1911 a glazier walked out of the Louvre with Leonardo's portrait. It was gone 28 months, and the empty wall made it the world's most famous painting.

Fred Barker and Karpis kill Sheriff C. Roy Kelly at West Plains, Missouri; Kate Barker leaves with them.

Ma Barker Killed before trial

Hoover called her the brains of a murderous gang. A robber who knew her said she couldn't plan breakfast. Kate Barker and the shootout at Lake Weir.

Frances Stevens Hall dies in New Brunswick; Willie Stevens dies eleven days later.

Hall-Mills murder Acquitted

A New Jersey rector and his choir singer were found shot under a crab apple tree in 1922. His rich widow and her brothers were tried in 1926 and acquitted.