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James Wilston

Age: 93

Sex: male

Date: 19 Jul 1901

Place: High Street, West Barnet

James Wilston was run over by a straw cart.

He was found in High Street in West Barnet on 9 July 1901 lying partly on the pavement opposite the Crown and Anchor pub by a greengrocer. The greengrocer said that James Wilston asked him to go to the police station for assistance, saying that he had been run over by a cart laden with straw. He said that it had been a cart drawn by a brown horse and that the carman had got off and pulled him onto the path and then gone off saying that he would fetch assistance but didn't do so.


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

see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see Barnet Press - Saturday 27 July 1901

see Unsolved 1901