16 September

Arnaud du Tilh is hanged in front of the Guerre house in Artigat.

Martin Guerre Executed

In 1556 a man walked into a Pyrenean village claiming to be its missing husband. His wife accepted him for three years, until the real one came home.

His mother dies of tuberculosis in Silver City, New Mexico Territory.

Billy the Kid Killed before trial

Convicted of killing a sheriff, Billy the Kid shot his way out of the Lincoln jail in 1881. Eleven weeks later Pat Garrett found him in a dark bedroom.

He robs a stage in Jackson County, Oregon, the farthest north he is known to have worked.

Black Bart Convicted

A polite robber in a flour-sack mask held up Wells Fargo stagecoaches for eight years. A laundry mark on a dropped handkerchief led detectives to his door.

She is buried in a common grave, although her family had a vault at Highgate.

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.

Their bodies are found under a crab apple tree off De Russey's Lane in Franklin Township.

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.