25 July

Rogers leaves home on a Sunday morning, telling her fiancé she is visiting relatives.

Mary Rogers Unsolved

In 1841 New York's 'beautiful cigar girl' was found dead in the Hudson. Her death was never solved, and it gave Edgar Allan Poe a detective story.

He leaves a second verse after robbing the Quincy to Oroville stage.

Black Bart Convicted

A polite robber in a flour-sack mask held up Wells Fargo stagecoaches for eight years. A laundry mark on a dropped handkerchief led detectives to his door.

The court-martial convicts her unanimously and sentences her to death.

Mata Hari Executed

France shot the famous dancer as a German spy in 1917. She took money from both sides; whether she gave either anything of value is still argued.