VIOLENT CRIMES

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1922, Page 7

VIOLENT CRIMES

EPIDEMIC CONTINUES IN ENGLAND

THE LATEST CASES,

"BACK IN THREE WEEKS."

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(Received March 8, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, 6th March.

The epidemic of crimes with violence continues. Mrs. Sarah Blake, a widow, keeper of the Crown, and Anchor Inn at Henley, was" found with her throat cut and her head battered. The motive is a mystery, as about £500 in an unlocked box was not touched.

There haa been a tragedy in a fashionable flat in Fulham. The body of [a young woman, Gertrude Gates, kno\yn as Olive Young, was discovered in a bathroom, gagged, her throat cut, and her head battered. A man who had been a frequent visitor left hurriedly in the morning, telling the maid not to disturb Gates, as she was sleeping.

A double tragedy is reported from Woodgreen, Hampshire. A young couple were found dead in bed in a bungalow, which was occupied alone by the couple. Partially emptied glasses of wine were' alongside the bed. The couple were apparently wealthy. The man was an ex-soldier, named Vincent Quinn; the woman has not been identified.