On this day
27 November
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1837
Amelia Hobley is born at Pyle Marsh, near Bristol.
Amelia Dyer Executed
For £10 'Mrs Harding' promised a mother's love to babies born outside marriage. In 1896 the Thames at Reading gave up what she had done with them.
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1876
The Habron brothers' trial begins; William Habron is convicted and sentenced to death, later commuted.
Charles Peace Executed
A limping Sheffield burglar shot two men, let an innocent one take the blame, and lived as a respectable gentleman in Peckham until a Blackheath break-in.
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1887
Deputy US Marshal Frank Dalton is killed by whiskey runners in Indian 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.