Age: 65
Sex: male
Date: 5 Jan 1947
Place: 42 College Road, Harrow
John Brown was killed by two burglars that broke into an auctioneer’s premises below his flat.
He was found dead, lying with his head in a pool of blood on the ground floor of the auctioneer’s premises of Messrs PN Dewe & Co, auctioneers and estate agents at 42 College Road, Harrow on 5 January 1947.
see www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
see National Archives - MEPO 3/2843
see The Scotsman - Monday 06 January 1947
see Northern Whig - Monday 06 January 1947
see Western Daily Press - Monday 06 January 1947
see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Monday 06 January 1947
see Dundee Courier - Monday 06 January 1947
see Unsolved 1947