UNSOLVED MURDERS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20173, 27 February 1931, Page 9

UNSOLVED MURDERS.

NINETEEN IN TWO YIBARS. CAUSES OF , FAILURE., (raou ova own corbespohseht.) ' LONDON, Janulary Id. Tljo "Morning Post" publishes the following formidable list of unsolved 1 murders during the past two years in. | England. It is as under:— jrebriiary, 1929—Mrs Kate Jackson,' murdered outstdb her bungalow near Swansea. ' Marcii—Mrs Kitherine Peck, known as "Singing flosio," fouud in .the road' near her- home at Flint' street, Walworth;, with,' a wound i& her throat. , March—Mrs , Winifred East, aged 28 years, wife of, an auctioneer of Wanstead, discovered murdered 'on the Southern Railway - between Kidbrooke and Eltham. ■ ',She' was decapitated. . August—Miss Mary Learoyd, a Bradford clerk, strangled on llkley Moor with a silk stocking,' "Croydon Poison Mastery."' Mrs Violet Sidney, Miss Vera Sidney, and Mr E, C. Duff —all members " of" the ! same family, living in Croydon—- ' murdered by arsenical poisoning. June—-Mr Alfred Oliver, ■ a Reading I tobacconist,. bettered to death in his shop.

-• May,- 1930 — of the Barefoot "Woman." Mrs Carrie Whitehouse I found dead in a ditch near Cheadle, Cheshire. t Her feet were without stockings and shoes. » - ■ June—Misa Mary O'Connor, bat^ v tered to dee?bh at Romford. Miss Beatrice Prendergast, stabbed to death at, Brighton; ,Miss Agnes Kesson. strangled in a ditch near Epsom. July—Sidnev Butler, murdered in a caravan at i'laxbury, Worcestershire. -.^August—Police Constable • Lawes,. killed by bjyidits' motor-car while attempting to 1 arrest" the occupants. September—Samuel 'Wilson, shot dead in his motor-van at Warsop; Miss Margoiy Wren, battered iu her shop in Bamsgate. November—Samuel Henrv Smith, retired moneylender, of Hull, battered to death, January, 1931—Miss Margaret "Soholield. a Dewsbury weaver, battered to death in the street; - Miss Evelyn Foster, daughter of a garage proprietor, attacked near Otterb'urn, Northumberland.

| Bscafee by Motor-Oar. 1 _ One of tho thief causes of the tailui'e to solve murders', according to Ijord Hailsham, a former Attorney--1 General, was the greater mobility possible 'for criminals' in these days ' of fast motor-cars. "The Judges? Rules," be added, "are perhaps a little strict, and .-might be loosened .a trifle. The .trouble is that 'one must make sure that there, is no chance'for- complaints of 'Third Degree' methods on the part | of- th» poliot , . ' .J nl ,< '< V * 'V „ ' V' V ' "

Sir ' Archibald , Bodkin,-';: formerly Director of Publio- Prosecutions, exf pressed, the opinion that it was. Jnpre difficult at'present for the' pplic^, io secure evidenoe, - Mor©~ njod6rn, n and , scientific methods employed by' crinanals had greatly increased difficulties of tne police, he stated. "I <ro not agree that ■ the Judges'- Rule? should be -revised. < If ..they/aije'.prof ' peHy interpreted I think, they,'ac&;ex~- 1 cellent. The police ~^nust 1 r taore'• and more adapt their method? to those ot t the modern cripuntil. 1 i'have po doiibt ihat the police have advanced, ytiry considerably of late, onei unity-- be * quite sure that they position, and Will take" every" step to dtspovor the cu!pntsi ,, i *, ' . j ■ "I'A ■' 1