22 January

The Kennersley Castle sails from Leith with nearly 200 emigrants.

Gregor MacGregor and Poyais Acquitted

Gregor MacGregor sold bonds, land and passage to Poyais, a Central American country that did not exist. Most of the settlers who sailed there died.

Hardin kills Texas State Police officer Smalley and escapes custody.

John Wesley Hardin Convicted

A preacher's son who killed a deputy on his 21st birthday served sixteen years, came out a lawyer, and was shot from behind in an El Paso saloon in 1895.

Being taken by train to Sheffield, he leaps from the carriage window near Worksop.

Charles Peace Executed

A limping Sheffield burglar shot two men, let an innocent one take the blame, and lived as a respectable gentleman in Peckham until a Blackheath break-in.

She is discharged and returns home to Mayfield, Cusop.

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.