On this day
10 February
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1722
Roberts is killed by the Swallow's fire and the Royal Fortune surrenders.
Bartholomew Roberts Killed before trial
A Welsh mate forced into piracy took hundreds of ships in under three years. A broadside off Gabon in 1722 ended him, and 52 of his men were hanged.
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1865
Her mother, Jane Taylor, arrives to nurse her.
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.
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1879
The gang robs the Bank of New South Wales at Jerilderie; Kelly leaves the Jerilderie Letter.
Ned Kelly Executed
Three police dead at Stringybark Creek, two bank raids and a last stand in plough-iron armour: how the Kelly outbreak ended on a Melbourne gallows.
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1934
Frank Hamer begins tracking the couple for the Texas prison system.
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.