6 December

Blood's gang drags Ormond from his coach in St James's Street; Ormond escapes.

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.

Edward William Pritchard is born in Southsea, Hampshire.

Dr Edward Pritchard Executed

A Glasgow doctor poisoned his wife and her mother while nursing them, and in 1865 became the last man hanged in public in the city.

The joint trial opens at the Old Bailey before Mr Justice Shearman.

Thompson and Bywaters Executed

A young ship's steward stabbed his lover's husband on an Ilford street in 1922. Her letters, not her actions, took her to the gallows beside him.