14 July

Garrett shoots him dead around midnight in Pete Maxwell's bedroom at Fort Sumner.

Billy the Kid Killed before trial

Convicted of killing a sheriff, Billy the Kid shot his way out of the Lincoln jail in 1881. Eleven weeks later Pat Garrett found him in a dark bedroom.

The gang robs a train at Adair; a local doctor is killed by a stray bullet in the gunfight.

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.

The jury convicts Sacco and Vanzetti of first-degree murder.

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.