Charlotte Archer

Charlotte Archer died in a private home for old people in Sutton on 2 January 1948. She was due to be cremated on Monday 8 January 1948 at Mortlake but the cremation was stopped by the police following a communication from a relative so that her organs could be analysed.

At her adjourned inquest on Friday 16 January 1948 the coroner said that he saw no evidence of anything other than a natural death. He said that in the ordinary course he would have accepted without hesitation the post-mortem findings, but said that certain allegations had been made and that in order to exclude the possibility, 'once and for all' of anything other than a natural death being the cause of her death, he would await the analyst’s report on her remains.