James Green
Died
:
24 February 1873
Age
:
36
Rank
:
Police Constable
Force
:
Cheshire Constabulary
Cause
:
Homicide - Stabbed
Duty Status
:
On Duty
Roll of Honour Citation
Found in the canal having been beaten and stabbed in the after going missing on duty.
PC Green expressed his intention to spend some time in plain clothes keeping observation on a farm worker who resided at Moss Green near the hamlet of Elworth. The farm worker had several previous convictions for larceny and was believed to be still engaged in petty pilfering.
PC Green was not seen again until after continual inquiries, his body was recovered from the Trent Mersey canal at Moss Bridge, a quarter of a mile from the farm worker’s cottage. Medical evidence noted the cause of death to be the rupture of internal organs combined with twenty-three cut wounds caused by a sharp instrument about the head.
He was stationed at Bradwall near Sandbach and had 6 years service with the force. A native of Handbridge, Chester.