SinisterCrimes

On this day

27 November

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.