A young by who was murdered on a train and found stuffed under a seat of a third-class compartment is believed to have predicted his death.
It was around 2.15 pm on January 9, 1914, when a signalman at Camden Town recalled seeing a man hunched over a curly-haired child on a train. Two hours later, on that train, a young boy's body was discovered.
An errands boy, George Tillman, had noticed a hand as he leaned over to tie his bootlace on the North London Railway between Mildmay Park and Dalston Station at 4.30 pm. The boy was five-year-old Willie Starchfield and it was later discovered that he had been strangled with a piece of cord which was found by investigators on the railway lines.
