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The Night Watchman Logged twenty-three Missing Children at the Factory Gates. Then He Found Room...

In 1911, Manchester night watchman Thomas Whitlock documented 23 children entering the Beckwith Cotton Mill who never came back out. His discovery of Room 419 and the underground passages beneath the mill exposed an international child trafficking ring reaching from England to South America. But Whitlock vanished the night before the trial, his body found in the canal three days later. Only one of the 23 children—Emma Croft—ever returned home. This video examines Whitlock's meticulous logs, his widow Sarah's fight for justice, and the powerful businessmen who escaped prosecution. Using historical records and Whitlock's preserved journals, we piece together one of England's darkest industrial scandals—a story of 200+ missing children, international trafficking networks, and a night watchman who paid the ultimate price for uncovering the truth. Based on historical documents from the Manchester Central Library archives and court records from the 1911 investigation. #TrueCrime #ManchesterMills #ThomasWhitlock #VictorianMysteries #HistoricalCrime