POLICE BAFFLED
MURDER OF MARY LEAROYD Pte»* Association—Bj Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, December 31. (Received January 2, at 1.30 a.m.) Despite repeated adjournments of the inquest and the fact that the police have taken 455 statements and interviewed more than 1,300 people, the authorities have failed to find n clue to the murderer of 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. .[The shocking crime was the discovery on September 25 of the nude and terribly injured body of a young woman named Mary Learoyd, aged thirty-six, the daughter of a building contractor at Ilkley, Yorkshire, on some vacant land 1 00yds from her home. A stocking was * ;d fight round her neck. A strong bouy ot police scoured the district, using bloodhounds,]
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Evening Star, Issue 20372, 2 January 1930, Page 9
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