SinisterCrimes

On this day

26 September

  1. 1901

    Czolgosz is sentenced to death.

    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.

  2. 1933

    Pierpont, Makley, Clark and others break out of Indiana State Prison with guns Dillinger arranged; he is already in custody.

    John Dillinger Killed before trial

    Out of prison in May 1933, dead by July 1934: Midwest bank raids, a jailbreak with a gun that may have been wood, and a summer night at the Biograph.

  3. 1933

    George and Kathryn Kelly are arrested in Memphis, Tennessee.

    Machine Gun Kelly and the Urschel kidnapping Convicted

    Blindfolded for nine days, an Oklahoma oilman counted the planes overhead. His memory led the FBI to a Texas farm and put Machine Gun Kelly away for life.