Harry Hopkins

Harry Hopkins was found dead on the road near Aylesbury.

His inquest failed to show how he was killed.

He had arrived at Aylesbury at about 3pm and later that evening, at the railway station he was found to be acting strangely and the station authorities called the police, reporting Harry Hopkins as unfit to travel.

When a police sergeant arrived, he found Harry Hopkins jumping in and out of a compartment saying, 'They're mobbing me'.

He was offered lodgings but refused, stating that he had to get home to Sheffield by midnight as his mother was expecting him.

He was then shown the way to Bicester, and escorted to the road to Bicester.

However, his body was found almost yards from the place where he had parted company with the police early the next morning by a night watchman.

He had lived at the Theatre Tavern in Arundel Street, Sheffield. His mother said that he had left home on the Thursday without saying where he was going but that she had not reported his absence as she had expected him home on the Saturday.

She said that he had never threatened suicide or been strange in his manner, but noted that he had been wounded in the war and had since helped her in the public house.

A captain in the territorials said that early on the Sunday morning that he had motored past the spot where Harry Hopkins was found and had felt a bump as if he had run over a brick or a large stone, but said that he had seen nothing in the road, even though he had had powerful headlights.

His cause of death was described as having been a mystery.