2 July

The coroner's inquest opens at Road.

Constance Kent Convicted

A three-year-old taken from his cot in a Wiltshire country house in 1860. Five years later his half-sister walked into Bow Street and confessed.

Guiteau shoots Garfield twice in the waiting room of the Baltimore and Potomac station and is arrested at once.

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.

Herbert Holliday is arrested in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Rondout train robbery Convicted

June 1924: the Newton brothers stop a mail train north of Chicago and take some $2 million, America's biggest train robbery. A postal inspector planned it.

Kürten is guillotined at Klingelpütz prison in Cologne.

Peter Kürten Executed

For fifteen months Düsseldorf hunted a killer it could not see. The break came from a survivor's letter, misaddressed and opened at the post office.