7 October

Daniel Payne is found dead near Sybil's Cave after taking laudanum, leaving a remorseful note.

Mary Rogers Unsolved

In 1841 New York's 'beautiful cigar girl' was found dead in the Hudson. Her death was never solved, and it gave Edgar Allan Poe a detective story.

He marries Ann Thornton at Abbots Bromley.

William Palmer Executed

A Staffordshire doctor deep in racing debts, a friend's winnings at Shrewsbury, and a strychnine trial moved to London by Act of Parliament.

The Coffeyville Journal publishes its account of the raid.

Dalton Gang at Coffeyville Killed before trial

On 5 October 1892 the Dalton gang tried to rob two Kansas banks at once in a town that knew their faces. In about ten minutes eight people were dead.

Bates, Bailey and Robert and Ora Shannon are sentenced to life imprisonment.

Machine Gun Kelly and the Urschel kidnapping Convicted

Blindfolded for nine days, an Oklahoma oilman counted the planes overhead. His memory led the FBI to a Texas farm and put Machine Gun Kelly away for life.

Ponzi is deported to Italy after his release.

Charles Ponzi Convicted

Boston, 1920: an Italian immigrant promised 50% in 45 days on postage coupons. Eight months later his name was a byword for fraud.

Richetti is executed in the gas chamber of the Missouri State Penitentiary.

Kansas City Massacre Disputed verdict

Thirty seconds outside Union Station in June 1933 left four lawmen and their prisoner dead. The FBI blamed Pretty Boy Floyd. Historians are still arguing.