3 September

Her murder trial opens before the assize court at Tulle.

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.

Florence Elizabeth Chandler is born in Mobile, Alabama.

Florence Maybrick Disputed verdict

An American wife, a Liverpool cotton broker who dosed himself with arsenic, and a verdict so doubtful the Home Office reprieved her within weeks.

Czolgosz buys a .32 Iver Johnson revolver at a Buffalo hardware store.

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.

Sarah Laumann, 19, is attacked and survives.

Axeman of New Orleans Unsolved

In 1918-19 an intruder with an axe terrorized New Orleans, above all its Italian grocers. He was never caught, and his famous jazz letter may be a hoax.

The police are notified, and the disappearance becomes front-page news.

Judge Crater Unsolved

On 6 August 1930 a New York judge left a Midtown chophouse and was never seen again. The 'missingest man in America' and the Tammany scandal around him.