29 November

The lodger Donald dies of natural causes and Burke and Hare sell his body to Robert Knox.

Burke and Hare Executed

Two Irish labourers killed sixteen people in Edinburgh in 1828 and sold the bodies to an anatomy lecturer. Only one of them hanged.

Peace shoots Arthur Dyson behind the Dysons' new house at Banner Cross, Sheffield.

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.

Vernon Miller's body is found near Detroit.

Kansas City Massacre Disputed verdict

Thirty seconds outside Union Station in June 1933 left four lawmen and their prisoner dead. The FBI blamed Pretty Boy Floyd. Historians are still arguing.