IDENTITY PUZZLE IN RAIL SMASH.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19238, 27 November 1930, Page 6

IDENTITY PUZZLE IN RAIL SMASH.

TWO CHILDREN WHOM NO ONE EVER CLAIMED. (Special to the “ Star.”) LONDON, Octbber 15. A railway disaster mystery of two years ago was again brought to mind yesterday, when the villagers of Charfield, Gloucestershire, placed wreaths on the graves of the fifteen victims. Among the fifteen were two children whose remains wfere never identified. One was supposed to be a boy of ten to fourteen years of age, and the other a girl of about nine. Inquiries made this week by the Press reveal that there is a growing belief among those charged with the solution of the mystery that t;he children never existed. Dozens of Interviews. They say it is inconceivable that two children could have been killed without some relative or friend coming forward to claim them. The theory adj vanced, despite a doctor’s opinion, is [ that the remains were those of Mr Goodwin Philip Jenkins, aged twentyj two, an electrical engineer, who was I travelling on the train, and whose body was never found. At the inquest, however, Dr Welchman Ward, of Wotton-under-Edge, [ said neither of the two unidentified j bodies could be that of Jenkins. “We have little hope of solving the riddle,” an official of the L.M.S. told a reporter yesterday. “For months the police and our own detectives and officials have worked on the problem. “Dozens of people have been interviewed, and all their statements have been investigated without success.”