Frankie Starling’s prison photograph, grim and unsmiling, appeared in all the national newspapers as ‘Wanted for Questioning in respect of the Murder of a Wages Clerk’ and ‘Do You Know this Man?’
As the Humber getaway car had been stolen in Nottingham. Yarrow asked Nottingham Police to make enquires if any local villains were known to have associated with Starling, perhaps whilst in jail. Also an alert had been sent out to all port police to watch out in case he tried to leave the country, but Yarrow felt it could be a case of shutting the stable door after the horse had bolted.
Following the publication his photograph, Frankie Starling was reported seen as far away as Aberdeen where Marjorie Mackinnon called the police to say that she was convinced that her lodger was Starling. When
