Age: 67
Sex: female
Date: 1 Nov 1912
Place: Elmgrove, West Ferry
Jean Milne was beaten to death in her home with a poker by an intruder.
The intruder had broken in while she was out and then when she returned he had beaten her from behind with a poker, or possibly stabbed her with a carving fork. Her body had laid in her house for three weeks until the postman noticed the letters piling up.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Daily Record
see Banbury Advertiser - Thursday 09 January 1913
see Falkirk Herald - Wednesday 08 January 1913
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 26 November 1912
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Monday 04 November 1912 (photo of house and Jean Milne)
see Pall Mall Gazette - Thursday 21 November 1912
see Dundee Courier - Wednesday 06 November 1912
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 05 November 1912
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Friday 13 December 1912
see Nottingham Evening Post - Saturday 23 November 1912
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Thursday 21 November 1912
see BBC
see Unsolved 1912