28 November

Bonny and Read are tried, convicted and sentenced to death, then plead pregnancy.

Anne Bonny and Mary Read Convicted

Two women sailed with John Rackham for barely two months in 1720. Their trial in Jamaica is the solid record; almost everything else is later legend.

A blackmail letter to William Broadbent claims Clover was poisoned with strychnine.

Thomas Neill Cream Executed

A McGill-trained doctor gave strychnine to young women in south London in 1891-92, then wrote blackmail letters that led Scotland Yard straight to him.