22 February

La Voisin is burned in the Place de Grève after her trial before the commission.

Affair of the Poisons Executed

Fortune tellers selling 'inheritance powders' to the Paris elite, a secret court lit by torches, and testimony that reached the king's own mistress.

Katharine Armstrong dies at home, aged 48.

Herbert Rowse Armstrong Executed

'Excuse fingers': a Hay-on-Wye solicitor handed his rival a buttered scone, and the arsenic trail led back to his wife's grave.

A partly dismantled and burned Cadillac is found in a garage on Wood Street.

St. Valentine's Day Massacre Unsolved

Seven men lined against a garage wall in Chicago, 1929. Gunmen dressed as police. Capone blamed by everyone, charged with nothing. Nobody was ever tried.

Thaw dies in Miami.

Stanford White Acquitted

In 1906 Harry Thaw shot the architect Stanford White before a theater crowd at Madison Square Garden. Two trials later, a jury called Thaw insane.