Age: 43
Sex: male
Date: 20 Aug 1927
Place: Shoeburyness
Herbert Ernest Thomas was found dead in a store shed which was part of a number of store sheds that had been destroyed by fire.
He had a revolver wound in his forehead and it was determined that he had died from the bullet wound and not from burning or suffocation but it was not possible to say how he had received the bullet wound.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Thursday 01 September 1927
see Essex Newsman - Saturday 27 August 1927
see Unsolved 1927