Age: 38
Sex: male
Date: 28 Dec 1905
Place: 29 Railway Street, North Heigham, Norwich, Norfolk
James Kowen was found dead in his back living room just after midnight on 29 December 1905 after having sat up to read a book by the fire. It was thought that he had been murdered shortly before midnight on 28 December 1905.
He had been horribly mutilated and set on fire with paraffin in a bonfire started with a pile of old clothes and cushions.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see London Daily News - Thursday 30 August 1906
see Nottingham Evening Post - Tuesday 23 January 1906
see Belfast Telegraph - Wednesday 09 February 1927
see Norfolk News - Saturday 17 March 1906
see Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough - Wednesday 13 June 1906
see Yarmouth Independent - Saturday 12 February 1927
see Eastern Evening News - Thursday 18 January 1906
see Cheltenham Chronicle - Saturday 17 March 1906
see Northampton Mercury - Friday 16 March 1906
see Aberdeen Journal - Thursday 14 June 1906
see Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser - Friday 05 January 1906
see National Archives - HO 144/828/142344
see Unsolved 1905
