Emily Pye

Unsolved Murders

Age: 80

Sex: female

Date: 8 Jun 1957

Place: 23 Gibbet Street, Halifax, West Yorkshire

Emily Pye was beaten to death in a robbery on her shop on 8 June 1957.

She was found dead in a living room behind her grocery shop lying on her back and covered with rugs, cushions, a small hand towel and a scarf, by her niece and her husband.

*map pointers are rough estimates based on known location details as per Place field above.

see www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk

see "'Brutal' Murder Of Woman Aged 80." Times [London, England] 27 Sept. 1957: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 29 May 2016.

see Halifax Evening Courier - Saturday 26 October 1957

see Lancashire Evening Post - Tuesday 11 June 1957

see Daily Herald - Saturday 15 June 1957

see Halifax Evening Courier - Wednesday 12 June 1957

see Halifax Evening Courier - Saturday 20 July 1957

see Halifax Evening Courier - Friday 02 August 1957

see Halifax Evening Courier - Tuesday 18 June 1957

see Belfast Telegraph - Monday 17 June 1957

see Northants Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 12 June 1957

see Lancashire Evening Post - Monday 10 June 1957

see Lancashire Evening Post - Wednesday 12 June 1957

see Lancashire Evening Post - Thursday 01 August 1957

see Shields Daily News - Monday 10 June 1957

see Lancashire Evening Post - Thursday 13 June 1957

see Northern Whig - Friday 14 June 1957

see Belfast Telegraph - Monday 10 June 1957

see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Thursday 26 September 1957

see Belfast Telegraph - Monday 05 August 1957

see Unsolved 1957