11th March 1924
Belva Gaertner, a cabaret singer, was arrested for the murder of her abusive lover, Walter Law, who was found dead from a bullet wound in her car in Chicago. The story would be the inspiration for the musical "Chicago".
Ship Losses:
Santiago (United States) The cargo ship sank in a storm 60 miles south east of Cape Hatteras. Twenty Five crew killed.
Wyoming (United States) Carrying a cargo of coal, the 329-foot (100 m), 3,730-gross register ton six-masted schooner foundered in a storm while at anchor off the coast of Massachusetts in Pollock Rip Channel off the Pollock Rip Lightship in Nantucket Sound. Her entire crew — reported as both 13 and 14 by different sources — was lost. After finding the wreck with some of its masts still above water, the cutter
USCGC Acushnet ( United States Coast Guard) leveled the wreck because it was a danger to navigation.