Age: 37
Sex: female
Date: 2 Mar 1938
Place: Village Stores, Fewston, West Yorkshire
Margaret Peel was beaten to death in the shop she ran in Fewston.
She had been hit around the head eleven times. It was thought that she had been reading a newspaper or mending some clothes at the time she was attacked. When the bloodstains were examined it was thought that she would have been sitting down when first attacked.
see Evening Mail [Birmingham (UK)] 14 Aug 1999: 11.
see Sheffield Independent - Monday 16 May 1938
see Sheffield Independent - Monday 07 March 1938
see Leeds Mercury - Thursday 03 March 1938 (with picture of Margaret Peel)
see Leeds Mercury - Wednesday 07 December 1938
see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 17 August 1943
see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Monday 16 August 1943
see Yorkshire Evening Post - Monday 16 August 1943
see The Scotsman - Saturday 28 May 1938
see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Monday 16 May 1938
see Leeds Mercury - Friday 11 March 1938
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 05 April 1938
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 08 March 1938
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 05 April 1938
see Shipley Times and Express - Saturday 13 May 1939
see Ilkley Gazette
see BBC
see National Archives - DPP 2/536
see Unsolved 1938
