17 October

The Boston Gazette prints Rogers's proclamation.

Anne Bonny and Mary Read Convicted

Two women sailed with John Rackham for barely two months in 1720. Their trial in Jamaica is the solid record; almost everything else is later legend.

Hauser is found with a cut to the forehead in Daumer's cellar and says a hooded man attacked him.

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?

His trial for the murder of Matilda Clover opens at the Old Bailey.

Thomas Neill Cream Executed

A McGill-trained doctor gave strychnine to young women in south London in 1891-92, then wrote blackmail letters that led Scotland Yard straight to him.

The jury finds Capone guilty on five counts and not guilty on the rest.

Al Capone tax evasion trial Convicted

Chicago could never convict Al Capone of murder. In 1931 the Treasury got him with a lawyer's letter, a bookkeeper's ledger and his own grocery bills.