10 October

Elizabeth Bigley is born in Canada West.

Cassie Chadwick Convicted

A Cleveland doctor's wife hinted she was Andrew Carnegie's secret daughter. Banks lent her millions on notes no one dared check.

Peace is caught burgling a house in St John's Park, Blackheath, after shooting PC Edward Robinson in the arm.

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.

Han van Meegeren is born in Deventer.

Han van Meegeren Convicted

Arrested in 1945 for selling a Vermeer to Göring, a Dutch painter saved himself by proving he had painted it. Then he had to prove he had faked the rest.

She dies in the Ohio Penitentiary on her fiftieth birthday.

Cassie Chadwick Convicted

A Cleveland doctor's wife hinted she was Andrew Carnegie's secret daughter. Banks lent her millions on notes no one dared check.