24 October

Bonnet escapes custody in Charles Town; he is recaptured on Sullivan's Island.

Stede Bonnet Executed

A rich Barbados planter bought a ship, hired a crew and went pirating in 1717. Eighteen months later Charles Town hanged him, despite his pleas.

Wilkerson sentences Capone to eleven years in prison and $50,000 in fines plus costs.

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.