Thomas Pickering Wrench

Thomas Pickering Wrench was found shot dead in a field on 30 August 1905

It was thought that he had accidently shot himself.

However, it was noted that an £800 mortgage that he had taken out about a year earlier had a clause in it which meant that in the event of his death from any cause that his property should at once become free from the loan granted upon it.

His wife said that she last saw him when he left home on the Friday at about 6.30pm and went off into the fields with his double-barrelled gun.

She said that after some time without him returning a search was made for him and after about two hours his body was found lying dead in a field near a gate. The top of his head had been blown clear away.

It was said that the trigger of his gun was found to have been in some way caught in the hasp of the gate and that both barrels of his gun had been discharged.

He had earlier had a farm at Weston Underwood near Derby.