Age: 72
Sex: female
Date: 21 Oct 1909
Place: 28 Belmont Road, Reading
Lydia Smith was found dying at her home with a gash in her throat.
Before she died, she said that a man had been after her to kill her. She had been found kneeling on the floor at her house. When she was asked, 'What have you been doing?', Lydia Smith replied, 'A man has been after me to kill me'.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Western Times - Thursday 21 October 1909
see Yorkshire Evening Post - Thursday 21 October 1909
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Thursday 21 October 1909
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Thursday 21 October 1909
see Exmouth Journal - Saturday 23 October 1909
see Berkshire Chronicle - Wednesday 20 October 1909
see Unsolved 1909
