'Pretty Boy' Floyd was killed today in 1934 in a gunfight with FBI agents. They were actually trying to find 'Gorgeous Features' Mulwinnie after a tip-off from 'Impossibly Handsome' Bomperini.
In other news ...
Dr Crippen was found guilty of murdering his wife, Belle Elmore, today in 1910. I have blogged this once before because his execution was a gross miscarriage of justice. The body in the cellar was that of a man, we now know, not a woman so even if HH killed that individual, the corpse was not that of his wife so the case should have been dismissed. Why the error? A basic mistake by the pathologist Bernard Spilsbury who, even that early in his career, was revered by all and sundry as a God. And Belle Elmore? She later changed her name to Ann Widdecombe and the rest is History.
