30 November

Spicer rules that the lawmen acted within the law and declines to send the case to trial.

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Acquitted

About thirty shots in thirty seconds on Fremont Street, Tombstone, in 1881: three Cowboys dead, the Earps charged with murder, and a month-long hearing.

Ponzi pleads guilty to one count of mail fraud and is sentenced to five years.

Charles Ponzi Convicted

Boston, 1920: an Italian immigrant promised 50% in 45 days on postage coupons. Eight months later his name was a byword for fraud.

The jury convicts Landru of eleven murders and he is sentenced to death.

Henri Désiré Landru Executed

A fugitive swindler answered wartime France's lonely-hearts columns. Eleven people who went with him to rented villas outside Paris were never seen again.