30 June

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

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.

Francis Saville Kent is found dead in the garden privy at Road Hill House.

Constance Kent Convicted

A three-year-old taken from his cot in a Wiltshire country house in 1860. Five years later his half-sister walked into Bow Street and confessed.

Guiteau is hanged at the District of Columbia jail.

Garfield Assassination Executed

A disappointed office-seeker shoots President Garfield in a Washington railway station in 1881. The doctors' probing may have done the rest.

The gang's last robbery, at the Merchants National Bank in South Bend, Indiana.

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.