SinisterCrimes

On this day

10 February

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.