3 July

His trial opens before the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh.

Dr Edward Pritchard Executed

A Glasgow doctor poisoned his wife and her mother while nursing them, and in 1865 became the last man hanged in public in the city.

The first letter from the kidnappers reaches Christian Ross, warning him not to involve the police.

Charley Ross Unsolved

In 1874 two men lured a four-year-old into a buggy in Germantown and demanded $20,000. Charley Ross was never found, and America learned to fear strangers.