23 May

Kidd is hanged at Execution Dock, Wapping; the first rope breaks.

Captain Kidd Executed

Sent by powerful backers to hunt pirates, William Kidd came home accused of being one, and was hanged twice at Execution Dock in 1701.

Joseph and Catherine Maggio are attacked in their home behind their grocery and both die.

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.

Bonnie and Clyde are killed by a six-man posse on the road south of Gibsland, Louisiana.

Bonnie and Clyde Killed before trial

Two years, at least nine dead lawmen and a posse waiting in the Louisiana pines: the real Barrow gang, from Eastham prison farm to the ambush at Gibsland.