26 November

The New York Tribune reports a statement attributed to Frederica Loss that Rogers died during an abortion.

Mary Rogers Unsolved

In 1841 New York's 'beautiful cigar girl' was found dead in the Hudson. Her death was never solved, and it gave Edgar Allan Poe a detective story.

A post-mortem is held, during which Palmer interferes with the samples.

William Palmer Executed

A Staffordshire doctor deep in racing debts, a friend's winnings at Shrewsbury, and a strychnine trial moved to London by Act of Parliament.

On the last day for an appeal, he suffers a heart attack.

Han van Meegeren Convicted

Arrested in 1945 for selling a Vermeer to Göring, a Dutch painter saved himself by proving he had painted it. Then he had to prove he had faked the rest.