25 January

A Pinkerton night raid on the James-Samuel farm kills Jesse's half-brother Archie and maims his mother.

Jesse James Killed before trial

Northfield's townspeople broke the James-Younger gang in seven minutes in 1876. Six years later a new recruit shot Jesse James in his own parlour.

The jury finds Guiteau guilty of murder.

Garfield Assassination Executed

A disappointed office-seeker shoots President Garfield in a Washington railway station in 1881. The doctors' probing may have done the rest.

She is released and soon returns to the United States.

Florence Maybrick Disputed verdict

An American wife, a Liverpool cotton broker who dosed himself with arsenic, and a verdict so doubtful the Home Office reprieved her within weeks.

The commission's report clears Shackleton and blames Vicars for a lack of vigilance.

Irish Crown Jewels theft Unsolved

Days before a royal visit in July 1907, the diamond regalia of the Order of St Patrick vanished from a safe in Dublin Castle. They have never been found.

After a hotel fire exposes gang members, Dillinger, Pierpont, Makley and Clark are all arrested in Tucson, Arizona.

John Dillinger Killed before trial

Out of prison in May 1933, dead by July 1934: Midwest bank raids, a jailbreak with a gun that may have been wood, and a summer night at the Biograph.