21 January

Rasputin is born in Pokrovskoye, Tobolsk province (9 January Old Style).

Rasputin Never caught

Poisoned cakes, a man who would not die, a body under the ice: the famous story comes from one of Rasputin's killers. The autopsy tells a plainer one.

Frederick Henry Seddon is born in Liverpool.

Frederick Seddon Executed

An insurance man took over his lodger's savings for an annuity. Weeks after she fell ill and died, the arsenic in her body sent him to the gallows.