23 October

Scrip for a £200,000 Poyais government loan goes on sale in London.

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.

He disappears from New York, leaving his wife and daughter.

William Desmond Taylor Unsolved

A leading Hollywood director was shot in his bungalow in 1922. The suspects included two film stars and a stage mother, and the case files later vanished.

She dies in poverty at Gaylordsville, Connecticut.

Florence Maybrick Disputed verdict

An American wife, a Liverpool cotton broker who dosed himself with arsenic, and a verdict so doubtful the Home Office reprieved her within weeks.