Age: 40
Sex: male
Date: 13 Dec 1947
Place: Parsonage Street, Heaton Norris, Stockport
Charles Cottam was found dead in his kitchen early on Saturday morning 13 December 1947 in what the police described as unusual circumstances.
The police said that his death was from gas poisoning and that a length of tubing was found near his body. However, the police said that they were not satisfied as to his exact cause of death as he had other injuries.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Dundee Courier - Monday 15 December 1947
see Nottingham Evening Post - Tuesday 16 December 1947
see Liverpool Echo - Saturday 13 December 1947
see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Monday 15 December 1947
see Belfast Telegraph - Saturday 13 December 1947
see Unsolved 1947
