4 July

She marries George Wardle in London.

Madeleine Smith Acquitted

A Glasgow architect's daughter, a secret lover, his bundle of letters and three purchases of arsenic. In 1857 the jury said: not proven.

Jess Newton is arrested in Del Rio, Texas.

Rondout train robbery Convicted

June 1924: the Newton brothers stop a mail train north of Chicago and take some $2 million, America's biggest train robbery. A postal inspector planned it.