3 January

Charles returns to Le Glandier, still ill.

Marie Lafarge Convicted

A Parisian bride, a crumbling former monastery in Corrèze, a husband dead of 'cholera', and the Marsh test that made toxicology a courtroom science.

Joseph Crossley writes to Scotland Yard enclosing reports of the Highgate and Blackpool deaths.

George Joseph Smith Executed

Three newly married women drowned in small baths in three towns. A grieving father's newspaper cutting exposed the bigamist behind all of them.

Voigt dies in Luxembourg City.

Captain of Köpenick Convicted

In 1906 an unemployed shoemaker in a second-hand captain's uniform commandeered a squad of soldiers, arrested a mayor and walked off with the town's cash.