Railway mystery as cowboy’s coffin lies unclaimed for 20 years, then vanishes
Jun 04, 2019
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By Geoff Courtney
JOHN H LUXTON
THE railways of yesteryear were a frequent feature of novels by leading authors, not least in the works of Agatha Christie, the doyenne of‘who-done-it?’ mysteries. Occasionally, however, fact can be stranger than fiction, and surely one example is a bewildering episode that must have chilled the blood of LMS employees in 1926.
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