CHARGE OF MURDER
ACQUITTAL AT NEWCASTLE
NEWCASTLE, This Day.
Leonard William Roberts, who gave evidence at the inquest on January 10 concerning the death of Dorothy May Everett, who was found strangled in the Broughton House School ground lißst November, and was subsequently arrested on a charge of murder, was acquitted.
A message on November 27 last stated:—Police at Newcastle report a particularly fiendish crime resulting in the discovery of the body of Dorothy May Everett, agfed 28, a maid employed at the Broughton Church of England Boys' School, in the school ground this morning. The young woman .had been shockingly ill used and finally strangled with a silk stocking. Her clothing was ripped to shreds.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 100, 30 April 1938, Page 10
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