One file for each year of the 1900s: the most documented and most cited case on record for that year.
Credit: Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons (Camden Town murder)Public domainSourceAgar Grove (formerly 29 St Paul's Road), Camden Town, London
Sex worker Emily Dimmock was found with her throat cut in her Camden Town home in September 1907; artist Robert Wood was tried for her murder and acquitted after a defence by Edward Marshall Hall.
Credit: Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons infobox portraitPublic domainSourceBig Moose Lake, New York
Grace Brown, a 20-year-old factory worker, was murdered by her boyfriend Chester Gillette on Big Moose Lake, New York, in July 1906 after she told him she was pregnant. Gillette was convicted and executed in 1908.
Credit: RijksmuseumCC0Source34 Deptford High Street, Deptford, London
Thomas and Ann Farrow were beaten to death during a robbery at their Deptford paint shop in March 1905. A greasy thumbprint left on the emptied cash box was matched to Alfred Stratton, making this one of the earliest murder convictions in Britain based on fingerprint evidence. Alfred and his brother Albert Stratton were convicted and hanged in May 1905.
Towitta, South Australia
Thirteen-year-old Bertha Schippan was stabbed and slashed to death at her family's home in Towitta, South Australia, on the night of 1 January 1902. Her sister Mary was tried for the murder but acquitted, and the case remains unsolved.
Credit: Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons infobox presidential portraitPublic domainSourceTemple of Music, Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York
President William McKinley was shot twice by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition's Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, and died of gangrene from the wounds on September 14. Czolgosz was convicted of first-degree murder and executed by electric chair on October 29, 1901.
Credit: Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons (Murder of George E. Bailey); studio portrait c.1885Public domainSourceBreakheart Hill Farm, Saugus, Massachusetts
George E. Bailey was shot and dismembered at Breakheart Hill Farm in Saugus, Massachusetts, in October 1900. His employee, John C. Best, was convicted of the murder and executed in 1902.
