BODY FOUND IN DITCH
EVIDENCE OF FIGHT FOR LIFE. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, June 7. The partly clothed, strangled body of a young woman, zA.gnes Kesson, was discovered in a ditch near Epsom racecourse. The police believe that the girl was hanged on a tree in a remote spot and then dumped in a ditch. Extensive bruises on the body show that the girl made a terrific struggle for her fife before she was overcome. It is suggested that the murderer, or murderers, first intended to leave the "irl hanging in the hope that it would be regarded as suicide and then changed his mind, ' remembering the Whitehouse case, and decided to put the body in his car and drop it along the road.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1930, Page 4
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