The Canal Murders

As a result of the party's actions against Lawrence Bacon on the night of the 26th November 1928, a series of murders took place:

  • On the night of December 1st, a pair of unidentified vagrants were slain near to the spot where Bacon had fallen in the Regent's Canal on the previous Tuesday. The murders were unpleasantly gruesome, with rumours of disembowelments and worse. A witness claimed to see an inhuman monster killing the second victim.
  • On Wednesday 5th of December, the corpse of Cec Watts was found floating in the canal with similar injuries to the previous victims. Watts had been investigating Lawrence Bacon's activities at the instigation of Nathaniel Browne.
  • On the night of Friday December 7th, the police cornered and shot dead the apparent perpetrator in the Engineering sheds behind Kings Cross Station. Oddly, although the police have assured the public that the killer is dead, they remain unidentified, and no picture of the supposed killer was ever published.