10 March

Three of the gang are hanged at Tyburn.

Dick Turpin Executed

No night ride to York, no Black Bess: the real Dick Turpin was an Essex gang robber and killer, hanged at York in 1739 for stealing horses.

Charles and Rosie Cortimiglia are injured and their baby daughter Mary killed in Gretna.

Axeman of New Orleans Unsolved

In 1918-19 an intruder with an axe terrorized New Orleans, above all its Italian grocers. He was never caught, and his famous jazz letter may be a hoax.