Age: 67
Sex: female
Date: 1 Apr 1955
Place: Garnet Street, Leeds Road, Bradford
Frances Hodgson was attacked and stabbed in her lock-up general store in Garnett Street, Bradford on Thursday 31 March 1955 and died the following day in Bradford Royal Infirmary at about 5.30pm.
She was found unconscious in her sweet shop in a pool of blood. After she was taken to Bradford Royal Infirmary detectives kept a watch by her bedside in case she regained consciousness, but she died without doing so.
see www.westyorkshire.police.uk
see Bradford Observer - Wednesday 06 April 1955
see Bradford Observer - Tuesday 05 April 1955
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Saturday 03 September 1955
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Monday 04 April 1955
see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 05 April 1955
see Bradford Observer - Saturday 02 April 1955
see Unsolved 1955
