MYSTERIOUS MURDER
POLICE BAFFLED
London, December 31.
. Despite repeated adjournments of the inquest and the fact that the police have taken 4153 statements and interviewed more than thirteen hundred people, the authorities have failed to find a clue to the murderer of Miss Mary Learoyd. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against a person or persons unknown. The evidence showed that the girl was subjected to terrible treatment after death, apparently by an unknown lover. The police are satisfied that robbery was not the motive. [Miss Learoyd was the daughter of a builder at llkley, Yorkshire. Her body was found last August on some vacant land with a stocking fastened tightly around her neck.]
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 84, 3 January 1930, Page 2
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