31 October

The same men are retried for the mutiny and convicted.

Henry Every Never caught

In 1695 Henry Every's pirates plundered the Mughal emperor's greatest ship. A worldwide manhunt followed. Six of his men hanged; Every vanished.

Margaret Docherty is killed at Burke's lodgings.

Burke and Hare Executed

Two Irish labourers killed sixteen people in Edinburgh in 1828 and sold the bodies to an anatomy lecturer. Only one of them hanged.

Justice Wells Spicer opens the preliminary hearing on Ike Clanton's murder complaint.

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Acquitted

About thirty shots in thirty seconds on Fremont Street, Tombstone, in 1881: three Cowboys dead, the Earps charged with murder, and a month-long hearing.

Petiot, serving as 'Captain Valéry' in the French Forces of the Interior, is arrested at Saint-Mandé–Tourelle métro station.

Marcel Petiot Executed

In occupied Paris a doctor sold a secret route to safety for 25,000 francs a head. In March 1944 smoke from his chimney showed where his clients had gone.