CASE FILE 001 · RESTRICTED ARCHIVE
THE PRINNY HILL LANE MURDER.
Examine the evidence, witness notes and investigative records recovered from Edmund Cryer's first recorded case.
Case Summary
Crime Scene
Witness Notes
Suspect File
The Prinny Hill Lane Murder
Opened: October 12th, 1905
Detective Sergeant Edmund Cryer was summoned to Prinny Lane
shortly after dawn following reports of a woman's body discovered
near the old mill road.
Initial observations suggested no signs of robbery. The victim, as of yet is still not known, was found arranged carefully, with a single white rose resting close to her right shoulder.
The body has since been transferred to the mortuary where a post-mortem will soon take place.
A parcel was delivered to the police station by William Kershaw, 18-year-old. He was paid one shilling by person unknown. Kershaw also has a criminal record for petty theft.
Initial observations suggested no signs of robbery. The victim, as of yet is still not known, was found arranged carefully, with a single white rose resting close to her right shoulder.
The body has since been transferred to the mortuary where a post-mortem will soon take place.
A parcel was delivered to the police station by William Kershaw, 18-year-old. He was paid one shilling by person unknown. Kershaw also has a criminal record for petty theft.
“The positioning was deliberate. Whoever carried this out wished
for the body to be discovered.”
— Sergeant Cryer
— Sergeant Cryer
Crime Scene Photographs
Prinny Lane — 6:12am
Prinny Hill, location of victims body.
Artist sketch of victim.
Witness Statements
Recorded by Inspector Mercer
Joseph Shaw, age 47, labourer:
“Just after four in the morning, I were heading toward the dairy route before daylight. I saw a bundle laying on the ground. I thought it were old blankets dumped in the mud. I got close and first saw a hand. Never touched the body but I noticed the white flower on the ground.
“Just after four in the morning, I were heading toward the dairy route before daylight. I saw a bundle laying on the ground. I thought it were old blankets dumped in the mud. I got close and first saw a hand. Never touched the body but I noticed the white flower on the ground.
I quickly left and soon found Constable Briggs near the square and told him what I had found."
Suspect Notes
Restricted Material
No formal suspects identified.
On-going interviews with people who were in the public houses on the evening of 11th October and early-morning of 12th.
On-going interviews with people who were in the public houses on the evening of 11th October and early-morning of 12th.
“The killer appears organised. Educated perhaps.
There were signs of a struggle at the scene.”