Frank Cave

Unsolved Murders

Age: 61

Sex: male

Date: 20 Oct 1940

Place: Appleford Farm, Godshill, Isle of Wight

Frank Cave was shot in the back with a shot-gun.

A 25-year-old woman that he had been living with and who acted as his housekeeper was tried for his murder but acquitted at the Hampshire Assizes at Winchester on Thursday 19 December 1940. She said that she had shot him accidently.

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

see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see Portsmouth Evening News - Wednesday 13 November 1940

see Portsmouth Evening News - Saturday 02 November 1940

see Daily Mirror - Tuesday 22 October 1940

see Portsmouth Evening News - Thursday 19 December 1940

see Lincolnshire Echo - Friday 20 December 1940

see Newcastle Evening Chronicle - Friday 20 December 1940

see Daily Record - Wednesday 13 November 1940

see Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 12 November 1940

see Derby Daily Telegraph - Monday 21 October 1940

see Daily Herald - Tuesday 22 October 1940

see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Friday 20 December 1940

see Derby Daily Telegraph - Friday 20 December 1940

see Unsolved 1940