1 July

Charley Ross is driven away in a buggy after his brother Walter is sent into a shop to buy fireworks.

Charley Ross Unsolved

In 1874 two men lured a four-year-old into a buggy in Germantown and demanded $20,000. Charley Ross was never found, and America learned to fear strangers.

The jury convicts Smith after about twenty minutes and he is sentenced to death.

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.

Vanzetti is convicted of the Bridgewater attempted robbery.

Sacco and Vanzetti Disputed verdict

Two Italian anarchists executed in 1927 for a Braintree payroll robbery and double murder. Their guilt is still argued; their unfair trial is not.