Age: 15
Sex: male
Date: 11 Apr 1905
Place: 24 Hoyle Street, Ardwick, Manchester
Thomas Smith was found dead in the cellar of an uninhabited house in Hoyle Street off Fairfield Street in Ancoats, Manchester by two sand hawkers or rag and bone men at 3pm on 11 April 1905.
He had been gagged and mutilated. He had a roll of paper in his mouth as a gag that had a red handkerchief tied over it. The piece of paper stuffed into his mouth was a portion of 'Funny Cats' dated 8 April 1905.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Days of Horror
see Sussex Agricultural Express - Saturday 15 April 1905
see Gloucester Citizen - Wednesday 12 April 1905
see Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Saturday 06 May 1905
see Birmingham Mail - Wednesday 12 April 1905
see Daily Mirror - Friday 14 April 1905 (photo)
see Illustrated Police News - Saturday 22 April 1905
see Empire News & The Umpire - Sunday 16 April 1905
see National Library of Scotland
see National Library of Scotland
see Unsolved 1905
