One file for each year of the 1910s: the most documented and most cited case on record for that year.
Credit: Contemporary newspaper via Wikipedia (Green Bicycle Case)Public domainSourceGartree Road, near Little Stretton, Leicestershire, England
Bella Wright, a 21-year-old factory worker, was shot dead near Little Stretton, Leicestershire, on 5 July 1919 while cycling home. Ronald Light, seen riding with her shortly before her death on a distinctive green bicycle, was tried for her murder in 1920 and acquitted.
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory / Wikimedia Commons, c.1922–23Public domainSourceOrange, New Jersey
Beginning in 1917, factory workers who came to be known as the Radium Girls were poisoned after being instructed to shape radium-paint brushes with their lips; the resulting illnesses, deaths, and lawsuits against the United States Radium Corporation and the Radium Dial Company reshaped U.S. occupational health and labor law.
Credit: ABC Gippsland / East Gippsland Historical Society (via The Line-Up; also captioned in…Public domainSourceWonnangatta Valley, East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia
In late 1917 and 1918, station manager Jim Barclay and cook John Bamford were murdered in the remote Wonnangatta Valley, Victoria, Australia. Both men were shot and their bodies found separately months apart; the case remains unsolved.
Credit: Avi1111 dr. avishai teicherCC BY-SA 4.0SourceDegania Alef / Menahemia area, Ottoman Palestine
Moshe Barsky, an 18-year-old member of the Degania Alef kibbutz, was shot and killed by Bedouin raiders in 1913 while traveling to obtain medicine for a fellow kibbutznik. His death became a significant symbol in pre-Israeli Zionist history.
Image recordPublic domainSourceNear Hotel Metropole, 147 West 43rd Street, Manhattan, New York City
Herman Rosenthal, a Manhattan bookmaker who had accused NYPD officers of extorting protection money from his illegal gambling operations, was shot dead outside the Hotel Metropole in July 1912. NYPD Lieutenant Charles Becker and four gunmen were later convicted of ordering and carrying out the murder and were executed at Sing Sing Prison.
Tresjuncos, Cuenca, Spain
In 1910, a shepherd named José María Grimaldos disappeared from the Spanish village of Tresjuncos; two men were tortured into confessing to his murder and served over 12 years in prison before Grimaldos reappeared alive in 1926, leading Spain's Supreme Court to void their convictions.
