Eliza Jane Worton

Unsolved Murders

Age: 25

Sex: female

Date: 15 Feb 1936

Place: Tipton, Staffordshire

Eliza Jane Worton was found dead in a canal in Tipton, Staffordshire.

A 36-year old lorry driver was charged for her murder but acquitted. It was said that Eliza Worton had been attacked someplace and rendered unconscious and then driven to the bridge and drowned in the canal.

*map pointers are rough estimates based on known location details as per Place field above.

see www.truecrimelibrary.com

see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Saturday 11 July 1936

see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 07 July 1936

see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Friday 10 July 1936

see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 07 July 1936

see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Friday 20 March 1936

see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Friday 20 March 1936

see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Wednesday 19 February 1936

see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Thursday 09 July 1936

see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Wednesday 08 July 1936

see Daily Herald - Tuesday 18 February 1936

see Dundee Courier - Thursday 09 July 1936

see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Tuesday 18 February 1936

see Northern Whig - Monday 17 February 1936

see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 18 March 1936

see Portsmouth Evening News - Saturday 22 February 1936

see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Saturday 11 July 1936

see Derby Daily Telegraph - Monday 17 February 1936

see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Monday 24 February 1936

see Western Daily Press - Friday 10 July 1936

see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 18 March 1936

see Unsolved 1936