30 July

Coxswain John Dann is arrested at Rochester, Kent.

Henry Every Never caught

In 1695 Henry Every's pirates plundered the Mughal emperor's greatest ship. A worldwide manhunt followed. Six of his men hanged; Every vanished.

Sørensen dies on the day two life insurance policies overlap; Belle collects on both and buys a farm at La Porte.

Belle Gunness Never caught

When her Indiana farmhouse burned in 1908, searchers found a dozen people buried on her land. Belle Gunness was declared dead. Many doubted it.

He marries Edith Pegler in Bristol, the one wife who stays with him to the end.

George Joseph Smith Executed

Three newly married women drowned in small baths in three towns. A grieving father's newspaper cutting exposed the bigamist behind all of them.

Judge Wilkerson says he is not bound by the bargain, and Capone withdraws his plea.

Al Capone tax evasion trial Convicted

Chicago could never convict Al Capone of murder. In 1931 the Treasury got him with a lawyer's letter, a bookkeeper's ledger and his own grocery bills.

E. E. Kirkpatrick hands over the $200,000 ransom on a street in Kansas City.

Machine Gun Kelly and the Urschel kidnapping Convicted

Blindfolded for nine days, an Oklahoma oilman counted the planes overhead. His memory led the FBI to a Texas farm and put Machine Gun Kelly away for life.