Age: 73
Sex: male
Date: 11 Aug 1900
Place: Port Admiral Hotel, Lancaster Road, Preston
Peter Griffiths was killed after a soldier accosted him in the yard of the Port Admiral Hotel.
The soldier first asked for a match and then a penny and when he said he didn't have one the soldier grabbed him by the throat and dragged him down the road.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Edinburgh Evening News - Wednesday 15 August 1900
see Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Tuesday 14 August 1900
see Unsolved 1900
