Age: 3
Sex: male
Date: 8 Aug 1948
Place: Dutton Street, Cheetham, Manchester
Joseph Patrick Creamer was found hanged in a disused bombed warehouse near to his home in Dutton Street, Cheetham on Sunday 8 August 1948. An 11-year-old boy was charged with his murder, but later acquitted.
He was found hanging by a piece of electric light flex from a first-floor joist of the disused warehouse clothed only in his vest. His body was found by three schoolboys.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Belfast News-Letter - Friday 27 August 1948
see Staffordshire Sentinel - Monday 09 August 1948
see Liverpool Echo - Saturday 14 August 1948
see Lincolnshire Echo - Monday 09 August 1948
see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Friday 27 August 1948
see Gloucester Citizen - Thursday 12 August 1948
see Gloucester Citizen - Wednesday 11 August 1948
see Yorkshire Evening Post - Wednesday 18 August 1948
see Dundee Courier - Monday 09 August 1948
see The Scotsman - Thursday 12 August 1948
see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Thursday 12 August 1948
see Dundee Courier - Thursday 12 August 1948
see Unsolved 1948
