Age: 46
Sex: female
Date: 29 Jun 1953
Place: Lemington, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Catherine Hutchinson was found dead on a colliery railway line on 29 June 1953. She had been strangled and laid out on the line with her neck over the rail such that it would be decapitated when a truck passed.
A 33-year-old labourer was tried for her murder but acquitted.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see National Archives - ASSI 45/179, DPP 2/2278
see Yorkshire Evening Post - Wednesday 15 July 1953
see Yorkshire Evening Post - Monday 12 October 1953
see Dundee Courier - Wednesday 14 October 1953
see Bradford Observer - Wednesday 15 July 1953
see Bradford Observer - Thursday 02 July 1953
see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Wednesday 14 October 1953
see Unsolved 1953
