List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom
Pre-Second World War

List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom

Section Title: Pre-Second World War
Table Section Text: None

Year	Name of victim(s)	Location body found	Notes

1536	Robert Pakington	London	Probably the first murder with a handgun in London.

1752	Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure	Appin	"Appin Murder". At Appin, in the west of Scotland, in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745, inspired events in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped.

1759	George Burrington	St James's Park, Westminster	Burrington, late Governor of North Carolina, was retrieved from the Canal in St James's Park on 22 February 1759. He had been beaten and robbed.

1817	Mary Ashford	Sutton Coldfield	Mary Ashford's body was retrieved from a marl pit on the morning of 27 May 1817. Abraham Thornton, a local bricklayer who had been in her company, was charged with murder and rape but acquitted at a trial at Warwick on 8 August of that year, and an attempt to retry him on an appeal of murder brought by Mary's brother failed in early 1818.

1857	Emile L'Angelier	Glasgow	His lover Madeleine Smith was accused of poisoning him with arsenic. The verdict was "not proven".

1866	Janet Rogers	Mount Steward Farm, near Perth, Scotland	On 30 March 1866, Janet Henderson Rogers, age 55, was clubbed to death with an axe while visiting her brother Charles Henderson on his farm, and ploughman James Crichton was charged with her murder.

1876	Charles Bravo	Balham, London	Known as the Charles Bravo Murder or the Murder at the Priory. Charles Bravo, a lawyer, was poisoned with antimony: he took three days to die but gave no indication of the source of the poison.

1888–1902	Fairy Fay, Annie Millwood, Emma Smith, Martha Tabram, Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, Mary Jane Kelly, Rose Mylett, Elizabeth Jackson, Alice McKenzie, Frances Coles	Whitechapel, London	Murders and attempted murders mentioned in connection with Jack the Ripper.

December 1888	John Gill	Bradford, West Yorkshire	8-year-old John Gill's body was found in Manningham Lane in Bradford on 28 December 1888. His throat had been cut, his abdomen cut open and stabbed, his arms and legs hacked off and his ears removed.

10 February 1889	Louisa Smith	Lewisham, London	Prostitute Louisa Smith was found in Algernon Road, Lewisham, with a severe fractured skull caused by a blow with a blunt instrument.

1898	Thomas Webb	College Farm, Finchley	Known as the Finchley Murder. Thomas Webb, head cowman was found fatally shot outside his cottage at College Farm.

1902	Rose Harsent	Peasenhall, Suffolk	Known as the Peasenhall Murder. William Gardiner, a married man who was thought to be having an affair with the pregnant victim, was twice tried inconclusively and then set free.

1905	Mary Sophia Money	Merstham, Surrey	Body found in the Merstham railway tunnel. The post-mortem showed a scarf had been thrust into her mouth and marks were discovered on the tunnel wall showing Miss Money had been thrown to her death from a moving train.

1907	Emily Dimmock	Camden Town, London	Known as the Camden Town Murder. Prostitute Emily Dimmock was found with her throat cut.

1908	Marion Gilchrist	Glasgow	Marion Gilchrist was an affluent 82-year-old woman who lived in the West End of Glasgow. She had been bludgeoned to death and the only thing taken was a diamond brooch.

1908	Caroline Luard	Ightham, Kent	Known as the Seal Chart Murder. Mrs Luard was shot in a summerhouse in the middle of a wood near Sevenoaks, Kent.

1909	George Harry Storrs	Gorse Hall, Stalybridge	Storrs was the owner of Gorse Hall and was a prominent business man in the town. There were suggestions that he was the lover of his friends' au pair and that she had become pregnant due to the liaison.

1911	Joseph Wilson	Lintz Green railway station	The sixty-year-old stationmaster, Joseph Wilson, was shot when returning home after closing his office at the station. Although he did not die instantly, when questioned, Wilson was unable to communicate who had shot him.

18 October 1913	Mary Speir Gunn	Northbank Cottage, Portencross, North Ayrshire	Six shots fired through a living-room window at night. The other two occupants of the room were injured, but not killed.

1917	Vera Glasspool	Owslebury, near Winchester	On 11 July 1917, 15-year-old Vera May Glasspool was found in woodland close to Longwood House, where she worked as a scullery maid.

1919	Bella Wright	Little Stretton, near Leicester	Known as the Green Bicycle Case as the victim was last seen with a man owning one. A green bicycle was found in a canal and its owner Ronald Light (1885–1975) traced.

1920	Florence Nightingale Shore	Sussex	Shore, the goddaughter of Florence Nightingale, was found on a train at Bexhill, Sussex, with serious head injuries and died four days later.

1920	Mabel Greenwood	Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire	Harold Greenwood (1874–1929) was accused of poisoning his wife Mabel with arsenic. He was acquitted at Carmarthen Assizes in 1920 after a defence by Edward Marshall Hall.

1931	Evelyn Foster	Otterburn, Northumbria	Foster ran a successful car hire business and on returning from one journey on 7 January 1931, picked up a 26-year-old man wearing a tweed suit, overcoat and bowler hat.

1931	Julia Wallace	Liverpool	Known as The Wallace Case. Julia's husband William Herbert Wallace was convicted, but this was quashed when he successfully appealed.

1931	Vera Page	Notting Hill, London	10-year-old Vera Page's body was found in undergrowth on Addison Road in Notting Hill, London. It was believed she had been murdered elsewhere and then transported to this location.

1931	Hubert Chevis	Aldershot, Hampshire	Chevis was poisoned after eating partridge laced with strychnine.

1932	Queenie Winifred Harman (née Hicks)	St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex	Aged 17, Queenie was bludgeoned to death at her home. Her husband, Arthurd Edward Harman, was accused but never convicted.

1934	Unknown female	Brighton	Torso found in a trunk at Brighton Station. This is known as the Brighton Trunk Crime no.

1939	George Stapleton	Greenfield, Bedfordshire	Bludgeoned to death with a fence post. Stapleton, a farm worker aged 66, was attacked on Friday, 21 April 1939 while walking from Ruxox Farm along a bridleway in Greenfield to his lodgings, the White Hart Inn in Flitton, and his wages stolen.

Sentence(s)

Merstham tunnel was the site of the unsolved murder of Mary Sophia Money in 1905.

final_sentence: Merstham tunnel was the site of the unsolved murder of Mary Sophia Money in 1905.