On this day
20 July
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1878
Bass is found wounded in a pasture outside Round Rock and brought into town.
Sam Bass Killed before trial
Sam Bass took $60,000 in new gold coins from a Union Pacific train in 1877. A year later an informer led him into a Ranger trap at Round Rock, Texas.
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1911
Edward Wheeler Hall marries Frances Noel Stevens.
Hall-Mills murder Acquitted
A New Jersey rector and his choir singer were found shot under a crab apple tree in 1922. His rich widow and her brothers were tried in 1926 and acquitted.
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1933
The gang shoots its way out of the Red Crown Tourist Court near Platte City, Missouri; Buck is gravely wounded.
Bonnie and Clyde Killed before trial
Two years, at least nine dead lawmen and a posse waiting in the Louisiana pines: the real Barrow gang, from Eastham prison farm to the ambush at Gibsland.