5 May

The servant Elizabeth McGrain dies in a fire at the Pritchards' house in Berkeley Terrace.

Dr Edward Pritchard Executed

A Glasgow doctor poisoned his wife and her mother while nursing them, and in 1865 became the last man hanged in public in the city.

Sacco and Vanzetti are arrested on a streetcar, both armed.

Sacco and Vanzetti Disputed verdict

Two Italian anarchists executed in 1927 for a Braintree payroll robbery and double murder. Their guilt is still argued; their unfair trial is not.