Age: 6 months
Sex: male
Date: 27 Jun 1930
Place: Chairbarrows Colliery, Cleckheaten
John William Tong was thought to have been thrown down a disused pit shaft at Chairbarrows Colliery in Cleckheaten sometime in the summer of 1930.
His father was charged with his murder but acquitted. He said that the child was dead at the time he threw him in.
see discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
see National Archives - DPP 2/9
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Thursday 14 May 1931
see Sheffield Independent - Wednesday 13 May 1931
see Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Thursday 14 May 1931
see Nottingham Journal - Wednesday 13 May 1931
see Lancashire Evening Post - Thursday 14 May 1931
see Unsolved 1930