County - Tyrone

Location - Kildress parish

Date of discovery – 1900

Description
The body of a man dressed in a coachman’s coat with brass buttons was unearthed while building the churchyard wall in June 1900. The body of a man in a crouched position, who appeared to have been murdered by having his skull split by a blow from a turf spade. The discovery triggered off a murder inquiry, a warrant for the arrest of the would be assassin, and the eventual disproving of the alleged identity of the body by the documentation of his emigration to Scotland, and a death certificate to his recent demise by a well respected local schoolmaster.
(taken from Lindow Man –The Body in the Bog by I.M Stead, J.B Bourke, Don Brothwell ISBN 0-7141-1386-7)