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Benjamin Escreet

Age: 27

Sex: male

Date: 31 May 1927

Place: Normans Terrace, Campbell Street, Hull

Benjamin Escreet was found dead on his bedroom floor with a muffler around his neck.

His wife said that Benjamin Escreet had been in poor health for some time but had never threatened to commit suicide but that he had complained of terrible pains in his head and had been worried about being out of work. She said that on the afternoon he died that he had gone upstairs to read and that two hours later she had found the front bedroom door locked and that when she forced it open she saw him lying on the floor with his head near the skirting board.


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

see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see Hull Daily Mail - Thursday 09 June 1927

see Hull Daily Mail - Friday 03 June 1927

see Unsolved 1927