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MANY MURDER MYSTERIES
SCOTLAND YARD PERPLEXED
LONDON, April 5
Scotland Yard is worried over the fact that during the past six months five murders have been committed in the Metropolitan area, and no one has been caught in connection with them.
Conferences have taken place tc discuss the whole position, but the chiefs of the Criminal Investigation Department are driven back to the uncomfortable, alarming fact that then most energetic . efforts to trace the criminals have been' fruitless.
It is recognised at. Scotland Yard that there is now little hope'of any arrest being made for the murder of Myiss Susan Emberton, the Croydon housekeeper, who was killed by a burglar, unless some altogether unexpected infoz’mation gives, the police a new, direct line of inquiry. At present they are working in tide dark.
THE FIVE RIDDLES. The five unsolved London murder,, during the past §ix months are:— October 2—Norah Upchurch, strangled in an upoccupied shop in Sliafesbury Avenue. December 16 —Vera Page, . the Nottingham schoolgirl, found dead l r. a Kensington, garden. ' February 21—Dora Lloyd killed in the bedroom of her Maida V:• apartment. Mrch 11—Alice Todd, who died afte' being attacked in the street at Muswell Hill by a bag-snatcher. March 20 —Susan Emberton, who died as a result of injuries received wher struck down by burglars. This six months' "eeord is the worst in the history of Urn Vim rape I tar V-l-it
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1932, Page 7
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