21 September

Richard Turpin is baptised at Hempstead, Essex.

Dick Turpin Executed

No night ride to York, no Black Bess: the real Dick Turpin was an Essex gang robber and killer, hanged at York in 1739 for stealing horses.

The jury finds Westervelt guilty on three counts; he is sentenced to seven years in solitary confinement.

Charley Ross Unsolved

In 1874 two men lured a four-year-old into a buggy in Germantown and demanded $20,000. Charley Ross was never found, and America learned to fear strangers.

A posse traps the Youngers and Charlie Pitts near Madelia; Pitts is killed and the Youngers surrender.

Jesse James Killed before trial

Northfield's townspeople broke the James-Younger gang in seven minutes in 1876. Six years later a new recruit shot Jesse James in his own parlour.