SinisterCrimes

On this day

20 July

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.