Great Train Crimes: Murder And Robbery On The Railways - Plot & Excerpts
I have stabbed her in one of these compartments, I don’t know which.’ Passion, in all its forms, as well as financial gain, has been a common motive for murder. It is usually easy to detect, for either the criminal acts without thought to evade the police, as in Chapter 10, or confesses. Furthermore, the killer is someone well known to the victim and so will be a name which crops up as the police begin to talk to their family and friends. This case is no exception to the general rule. Daisy Dorothy Mays was aged 25 in 1927 and was a typist, employed at Ortweiler’s works in East London and lived at Grinstead Road, Deptford. She had ‘been keeping company’ with one James Frederick Stratton. He was a 26-year-old warehouse packer who lived in Homerton Terrace, Homerton. His history was not an altogether happy one. He had been born on 10 February 1901 in Hackney. His mother, Ada Marion Stratton, had died of appendicitis when he was 6 months old. James was looked after by his grandmother, Mrs Mary Padley, and he lived with her throughout his life.
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