Centenaries - whole and half

[GUT]

50 Years ago Ronnie Biggs decides that Australia is a better place to live than an English gaol.

Can you blame him.

Sometime later he decides an English gaol is better than Brazil. Doesn't say a lot for Brazil.

[sdreid]

Were they any leads in this Denise Clinton case? Haven't heard of it.

I don't believe there were any significant leads although the man who was her abductor was seen, I think. If you Google Denise Clinton 1965, there are several artcles about the case.

[Barnaby]

Were they any leads in this Denise Clinton case? Haven't heard of it.

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1965 July 8 - Denise Clinton, 9, is kidnapped from a Kansas City, MO motel. In 1967, her skeletal remains were found in Wyoming. The murder remains unsolved.

[Mayerling]

150 years ago - 1865 July 7 - Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt and David Herold, the four condemned for the conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln, are executed by hanging in Washington, D.C.

The officer in charge of the executions was Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, called the best corps commander in the U.S. army, and considered by General Grant the best army commander who never led any official army (like Grant, Lee, Sherman, Joe Johnston, Jackson, Sheridan, Early, Hood, Thomas). Hancock, a Democrat, was a contender for the 1868 Democratic nomination for the Presidency, but lost that one to Horatio Seymour. He did get nominated at last in 1880 by the Democrats, but lost in a squeaker of an election (less than 10,000 popular votes difference) to General James A. Garfield (who would assassinated less than eight months later).

Jeff

[sdreid]

400 years ago - 1615 July 8 - Scottish rebel and outlaw Angus Og MacDonald is executed in Edinburgh for high treason.

50 years ago - 1965 July 8 - Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21 crashes in B.C., killing all 52 onboard. Investigation proved that a bomb had gone off in the plane's restroom. The case was never solved.

[sdreid]

150 years ago - 1865 July 7 - Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt and David Herold, the four condemned for the conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln, are executed by hanging in Washington, D.C.

[sdreid]

600 years ago - 1415 July 6 - In what was then the Holy Roman Empire and is now Germany, Jan Hus, an early Christian reformer, is burned at the stake for heresy.

[sdreid]

100 years ago - 1915 June 26 - In France, an Argentine widow named Therese LaBorde-Line vanishes. She is believed to be the third victim of "bluebeard" serial killer Henri Landru. His ploy was to romance lonely women then kill them off as soon as he gained control of their assets. After murdering at least eight additional women he was was arrested and went to the guillotine in 1922

[GUT]

Don't know GUT. His killings were in several different states so I'm pretty sure he was convicted of less than the 13. My computer has been down for about two weeks so I have several cases to get caught up on. That's why this entry and the next couple will be a little tardy.

Thanks Stan.

[sdreid]

How many was he convicted of, do you know Stan?

Don't know GUT. His killings were in several different states so I'm pretty sure he was convicted of less than the 13. My computer has been down for about two weeks so I have several cases to get caught up on. That's why this entry and the next couple will be a little tardy.

[GUT]

100 years ago - 1915 June 25 - Sydney Jones is executed in Alabama by hanging. He left a note in his cell confessing to 13 murders and one attempt.

How many was he convicted of, do you know Stan?

[sdreid]

100 years ago - 1915 June 25 - Sydney Jones is executed in Alabama by hanging. He left a note in his cell confessing to 13 murders and one attempt.

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1965 June 22 - James Latham and George York are hanged in a Kansas prison. The pair had deserted the Army in 1961, when both were still teenagers, then gone a cross country killing spree that left seven dead. Latham mounted the gallows last and he is, to date, the last person executed in Kansas.

[sdreid]

100 years ago - 1915 June 11 - On a Chicago street, suspected Black Hand leader Pietro Catalanetto is gunned down. The next day, police name Michael Locascio as their person of interest in the killing.