Age: 5
Sex: male
Date: 8 Jan 1914
Place: North London Railway
William Starchfield was murdered on a North London Railway train on 8 January 1914.
He was found dead under a railway carriage seat of the 4.04pm train from Chalk Farm to Broad Street on the North London Railway. His father was tried for the murder but the trial collapsed. He died two years later in hospital but denied the murder.
see www.thecnj.com
see National Archives - MEPO 3/237B, CRIM 1/145/3, MEPO 3/1832
see Advertiser
see A Companion To Murder, E Spencer Shew
see Illustrated Police News - Thursday 22 January 1914
see Unsolved 1914
