Jack Quentin Smith

Unsolved Murders

Age: 11

Sex: male

Date: 12 Apr 1948

Place: Farnworth, Lancashire

Jack Quentin Smith was found murdered on a railway embankment for the Manchester to Bolton line near his home in Bradford Road in New Bury, Farnworth on Monday 12 April 1948.

He had been stabbed sometime between 4.20pm and 5pm on the Monday 12 April 1948.

*map pointers are rough estimates based on known location details as per Place field above.

see www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

see National Archives - MEPO 3/3003

see Gloucester Citizen - Saturday 22 May 1948

see Western Daily Press - Tuesday 29 June 1948

see Nottingham Journal - Saturday 17 April 1948

see Western Morning News - Tuesday 11 May 1948

see Hull Daily Mail - Friday 04 June 1948

see Liverpool Echo - Friday 23 April 1948

see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Wednesday 14 April 1948

see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Monday 31 January 1949

see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 11 May 1948

see Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 13 April 1948

see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Friday 23 April 1948

see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 08 February 1949

see Unsolved 1948