12 October

The first survivors arrive back in London; MacGregor has left for Paris.

Gregor MacGregor and Poyais Acquitted

Gregor MacGregor sold bonds, land and passage to Poyais, a Central American country that did not exist. Most of the settlers who sailed there died.

The trial of twenty-five defendants opens in Sarajevo.

Franz Ferdinand Assassination Convicted

A wrong turn, a stalled engine and a nineteen-year-old with a pistol: how Franz Ferdinand and Sophie were killed in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.

The gang frees Dillinger from the Allen County jail in Lima, Ohio, killing Sheriff Jess Sarber.

John Dillinger Killed before trial

Out of prison in May 1933, dead by July 1934: Midwest bank raids, a jailbreak with a gun that may have been wood, and a summer night at the Biograph.

George and Kathryn Kelly are convicted and sentenced to life.

Machine Gun Kelly and the Urschel kidnapping Convicted

Blindfolded for nine days, an Oklahoma oilman counted the planes overhead. His memory led the FBI to a Texas farm and put Machine Gun Kelly away for life.