30 September

The king suspends the commission's sittings.

Affair of the Poisons Executed

Fortune tellers selling 'inheritance powders' to the Paris elite, a secret court lit by torches, and testimony that reached the king's own mistress.

Elizabeth Stride is found in Dutfield's Yard and, about 45 minutes later, Catherine Eddowes in Mitre Square.

Jack the Ripper Unsolved

Five women killed in ten weeks in London's East End in 1888, a name invented in a letter, and a killer the police never identified.

A federal jury in Oklahoma City convicts Bates, Bailey, the Shannons and two money changers.

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.