19 September

She is convicted and sentenced to hard labour for life.

Marie Lafarge Convicted

A Parisian bride, a crumbling former monastery in Corrèze, a husband dead of 'cholera', and the Marsh test that made toxicology a courtroom science.

Garfield dies at Elberon; Chester Arthur takes the oath in New York early the next morning.

Garfield Assassination Executed

A disappointed office-seeker shoots President Garfield in a Washington railway station in 1881. The doctors' probing may have done the rest.

President Loubet pardons Dreyfus; he is released two days later.

Dreyfus Affair Disputed verdict

A torn note from a wastebasket, a Jewish captain sent to Devil's Island, and the real spy acquitted in three minutes: the injustice that split France.

Three men rob the First National Bank of Winnemucca, Nevada; the raid is usually attributed to Cassidy and Longabaugh.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Killed before trial

From Telluride to the Wild Bunch, Patagonia and a mule with the wrong brand: the trail that ended at San Vicente, Bolivia, in November 1908.

Bruno Richard Hauptmann is arrested in the Bronx after a ransom note is traced to his car.

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.