Picture No | 10678532 |
Date | 1881 |
Description | Balcombe Tunnel 1881 |
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The spot in Balcombe Tunnel, on the London to Brighton railway line, where the body of Isaac Gold, a coin dealer, was discovered on 27 June 1881. He had been murdered on a train and dumped there by Percy Mapleton Lefroy, who was subsequently convicted and hanged at Lewes on 29 November
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Source | Illustrated London News, 9 July 1881 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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