Age: 47
Sex: male
Date: 30 Apr 1931
Place: Somerset and Bath Mental Hospital, Cotford, Taunton
Sam Crosswood died from an internal haemorrhage and a ruptured spleen caused by two broken ribs.
It was not known how he came by the injuries but he had earlier been seen being chased by a patient with a broom in the Refractory Ward at the hospital although no blows were seen to have been struck.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Western Morning News - Thursday 30 April 1931
see Gloucester Citizen - Thursday 30 April 1931
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 29 April 1931
see Dundee Courier - Thursday 30 April 1931
see Western Daily Press - Thursday 30 April 1931
see Unsolved 1931
