SinisterCrimes

On this day

3 November

  1. 1883

    Last robbery, at Funk Hill; he is wounded in the hand and drops a handkerchief with a laundry mark.

    Black Bart Convicted

    A polite robber in a flour-sack mask held up Wells Fargo stagecoaches for eight years. A laundry mark on a dropped handkerchief led detectives to his door.

  2. 1908

    Two masked Americans rob the Aramayo company payroll in southern Bolivia (some accounts say 4 November).

    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Killed before trial

    From Telluride to the Wild Bunch, Patagonia and a mule with the wrong brand: the trail that ended at San Vicente, Bolivia, in November 1908.

  3. 1926

    Mrs. Hall and her brothers go on trial at Somerville for the murder of Eleanor Mills.

    Hall-Mills murder Acquitted

    A New Jersey rector and his choir singer were found shot under a crab apple tree in 1922. His rich widow and her brothers were tried in 1926 and acquitted.