16 October

He is moved to York Castle on suspicion of horse and sheep theft.

Dick Turpin Executed

No night ride to York, no Black Bess: the real Dick Turpin was an Essex gang robber and killer, hanged at York in 1739 for stealing horses.

The infant hereditary prince of Baden dies a few weeks after birth, the event behind the later 'stolen prince' rumour.

Kaspar Hauser Unsolved

A foundling who claimed a childhood in a dark cell, rumours of a stolen prince, and a stab wound in an Ansbach park in 1833. Murder or self-inflicted?

George Lusk receives the "From Hell" letter with half a human kidney.

Jack the Ripper Unsolved

Five women killed in ten weeks in London's East End in 1888, a name invented in a letter, and a killer the police never identified.

In a captain's uniform, Voigt commandeers a squad of guardsmen, occupies Köpenick town hall, arrests the mayor and takes the town's cash.

Captain of Köpenick Convicted

In 1906 an unemployed shoemaker in a second-hand captain's uniform commandeered a squad of soldiers, arrested a mayor and walked off with the town's cash.