1 September

Miss Barrow falls ill with sickness and diarrhoea.

Frederick Seddon Executed

An insurance man took over his lodger's savings for an annuity. Weeks after she fell ill and died, the arsenic in her body sent him to the gallows.

Célestine Buisson is last seen, the date and hour later found noted in Landru's book.

Henri Désiré Landru Executed

A fugitive swindler answered wartime France's lonely-hearts columns. Eleven people who went with him to rented villas outside Paris were never seen again.

Lustig escapes from the Federal House of Detention in Manhattan.

Victor Lustig Convicted

Did Victor Lustig really sell the Eiffel Tower for scrap in 1925? His counterfeiting and Alcatraz are on record. The tower sale rests on one later book.