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.
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