James Gordon
Died =>13 November 1893
Force => St Helens Borough Police
Rank =>Police Constable
Age =>26
Cause =>Homicide - Beaten
Duty Status =>On Duty
Found dead in bed the morning after he was struck a number of blows to the head with an iron bar and later kicked in the head, when he and a colleague discovered three men stealing from a chicken coop at an engineering works.
On 16th March the following year all three men were found guilty of the officer’s murder and were sentenced to death but Queen Victoria later reprieved the men and they each received fifteen years penal servitude instead.