Age: 30
Sex: male
Date: 21 Oct 1927
Place: Addiscombe Cricket Ground, Croydon
William Charles Bignell was found dead under a bush at Addiscombe Cricket Ground at Croydon on Friday 21 October 1927.
He had died from sulphonal poisoning. A professor at the London Hospital who analysed certain internal organs said that William Bignell had recently taken not less than 200 grains of sulphonal, noting that 40 was a fatal dose.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Croydon Times - Saturday 10 December 1927
see Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 28 October 1927
see Western Mail - Thursday 01 December 1927
see Unsolved 1927
