5 June

Hardin is sentenced to 25 years in the Huntsville penitentiary for Webb's murder.

John Wesley Hardin Convicted

A preacher's son who killed a deputy on his 21st birthday served sixteen years, came out a lawyer, and was shot from behind in an El Paso saloon in 1895.

The trial opens at the courthouse in New Bedford.

Lizzie Borden Acquitted

Andrew and Abby Borden were killed in their Fall River home in 1892. A jury took barely an hour to acquit his daughter Lizzie. No one else was charged.

A Florentine court convicts Peruggia with mitigating circumstances and sentences him to a year and fifteen days.

Mona Lisa theft Convicted

In 1911 a glazier walked out of the Louvre with Leonardo's portrait. It was gone 28 months, and the empty wall made it the world's most famous painting.

A second indictment charges twenty-two counts covering 1925 to 1929.

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.