MURDER MYSTERY REMAINS UNSOLVED.
WOMAN S NUDE BODY TERRIBLY TREATED. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copy right.) LONDON, December 31. In spite of repeated adjournments of the inquest, and the fact that the police have taken 455 statements, and interviewed more than 1300 people, the authorities have failed to find a clue to the death of Mary Learoyd, last August. The jury have now returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. 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 nude and terribly injured body of a woman named Mary Learoyd, aged thirty-six years, . daughter of a building contractor at Ilkley, Yorkshire, was discovered on a vacant area of land one hundred yards from her home, on August 25, 1929. A stocking was wound tight round her neck. Ponce scoured the district, using bloodhounds
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18958, 2 January 1930, Page 1
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