Age: unknown
Sex: male
Date: 4 Dec 1931
Place: Brook House Farm, Gedney Dyke, Holbeach, Lincolnshire
James Kitchen was shot at his farm.
His father was tried for his murder but acquitted. His defence claimed that his dog knocked the gun over causing it to fire. The trial was stopped by the judge whilst the pathologist was on the stand, stating that the prosecution’s case was pure speculation.
see discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
see National Archives - HO 144/16364, HO 144/16363, CRIM 1/598
see Lincolnshire Echo - Monday 18 May 1942, p3
see Unsolved 1931
