DEATH OF ARMY NURSE
Soldier Sought For Questioning <Rec. 8 p.m.) LIVERPOOL, Dec. 1. A 24-year-old soldier sought by the police for questioning about the murder of a 50-year-old woman nurse, walked into a police station in Liverpool today to give information. He was transferred to police headquarters in Liverpool to await the arrival of detectives from Harrogate, Yorkshire, where the nurse, Major Grace Margaret Hogg, was found dead on Wednesday. The soldier, Trooper Lesli_e Edwards, who was her batman, had been missing from the Hildebrand barracks, near Harrogate, since early on Wednesday. Major Hogg, of Queen Alexandra’s Nursing Corps, waS found scantily clad in a cupboard in her military hospital bedroom, apparently strangled. The police said later that a man would be charged with Major Hogg’s murder tomorrow.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27832, 3 December 1955, Page 9
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