9 May

Blood and his accomplices attack Talbot Edwards and seize the crown, sceptre and orb, but are caught at the Tower.

Colonel Blood Convicted

In 1671 Thomas Blood flattened King Charles II's crown with a mallet and ran for the Tower gate. He was caught, then pardoned and given an Irish estate.

Kidd is convicted on all six indictments and sentenced to death.

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.

The military commission trying eight accused conspirators opens in Washington.

Lincoln Assassination Executed

Good Friday, 1865: an actor shoots the president at Ford's Theatre, a manhunt crosses two states, and a military court hangs four conspirators.

The Dalton gang robs a Santa Fe train at Wharton in Oklahoma Territory.

Dalton Gang at Coffeyville Killed before trial

On 5 October 1892 the Dalton gang tried to rob two Kansas banks at once in a town that knew their faces. In about ten minutes eight people were dead.

The Humbert safe is opened by court order and found to be nearly empty; the family has fled.

Thérèse Humbert Convicted

For twenty years Paris lent fortunes against an American millionaire's legacy locked in Thérèse Humbert's safe. In May 1902 they opened it.