Age: 62
Sex: female
Date: 6 May 1940
Place: Broadlands Pit, North Petherton
Bessie Burrows was found face downward in Broadlands Pit covered by a foot of water.
Her body was found by a man that had lived in Butts Corner, North Petherton as he was walking across some fields to the allotments. He said that as he passed the pit he glanced into it and saw her body, fully clothed, lying face down in about a foot of water covering her.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Western Daily Press - Monday 06 May 1940
see Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Saturday 11 May 1940
see Unsolved 1940
