Age: 11
Sex: male
Date: 5 Feb 1920
Place: Westerham, Kent
Gerald Noah Griggs was found strangled near a reservoir with a lanyard around his neck.
He had earlier that evening been to a picture palace where he had seen, 'The Circus King' in which there was a hanging scene. One of his uncles had also hung himself ten years earlier.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Monday 16 February 1920
see The Scotsman - Tuesday 17 February 1920
see Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald - Saturday 21 February 1920
see Unsolved 1920