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Charles Edgar Lawrence

Age: 36

Sex: male

Date: 12 Nov 1939

Place: Thrawl Street, Stepney, London

Charles Edgar Lawrence was found dead in a courtyard off Thrawl Street and Lolesworth Street in Stepney by a baker.

He was first thought to have been the victim of a gang attack, but it was later said that the police didn't think that he was the victim of a gang war, saying that new information led them to te belief that his death had followed a brawl after he had become mixed up in a dispute that ended up in a bitter fight.


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see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see Gloucester Citizen - Thursday 30 November 1939, p5

see Edinburgh Evening News - Monday 13 November 1939

see Birmingham Daily Post - Monday 13 November 1939

see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Monday 13 November 1939

see Dundee Courier - Monday 13 November 1939

see Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 13 November 1939

see National Library of Scotland

see Unsolved 1939