9 October

Ellen Kelly is convicted as an accessory and later sentenced to three years' hard labour.

Ned Kelly Executed

Three police dead at Stringybark Creek, two bank raids and a last stand in plough-iron armour: how the Kelly outbreak ended on a Melbourne gallows.

The New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals upholds the conviction.

Lindbergh baby kidnapping Executed

A ladder, a misspelled note and $50,000 in gold certificates: how the Lindbergh baby case ended in the electric chair, and why doubts still linger.