13 July

Police searching the empty house find human remains under the cellar floor.

Dr Crippen Executed

In 1910 a mild American medicine seller fled London with his lover dressed as a boy, and a ship's wireless message brought him back to hang.

Bessie Mundy is found drowned in the bath at 80 High Street, Herne Bay.

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.

Emmett Dalton dies in California.

Dalton Gang at Coffeyville Killed before trial

On 5 October 1892 the Dalton gang tried to rob two Kansas banks at once in a town that knew their faces. In about ten minutes eight people were dead.