SinisterCrimes

On this day

21 June

  1. 1720

    Roberts raids Trepassey harbour, Newfoundland.

    Bartholomew Roberts Killed before trial

    A Welsh mate forced into piracy took hundreds of ships in under three years. A broadside off Gabon in 1722 ended him, and 52 of his men were hanged.

  2. 1933

    He robs his first bank, at New Carlisle, Ohio.

    John Dillinger Killed before trial

    Out of prison in May 1933, dead by July 1934: Midwest bank raids, a jailbreak with a gun that may have been wood, and a summer night at the Biograph.