31 July

Florence Maybrick's trial for murder opens at St George's Hall, Liverpool.

Florence Maybrick Disputed verdict

An American wife, a Liverpool cotton broker who dosed himself with arsenic, and a verdict so doubtful the Home Office reprieved her within weeks.

Dew, disguised as a pilot, boards the Montrose in the St Lawrence and Crippen and Le Neve are arrested.

Dr Crippen Executed

In 1910 a mild American medicine seller fled London with his lover dressed as a boy, and a ship's wireless message brought him back to hang.

Urschel is released near Norman, Oklahoma, and reaches home that night.

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.