14 September

McKinley dies at the Milburn House at 2:15 a.m.; Theodore Roosevelt takes the oath in Buffalo later that day.

McKinley Assassination Executed

Buffalo, 1901: a young anarchist hides a revolver under a handkerchief in the president's receiving line. Eight days later McKinley is dead.

Eliza Barrow dies early in the morning; her death is certified as epidemic 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.

Hall and Eleanor Mills are last seen alive in New Brunswick.

Hall-Mills murder Acquitted

A New Jersey rector and his choir singer were found shot under a crab apple tree in 1922. His rich widow and her brothers were tried in 1926 and acquitted.