Age: 37
Sex: female
Date: 22 Oct 1931
Place: Patcham Park, Patcham
Emily Shinn died from cyanide of potassium poisoning.
She had been walking along with a man when she collapsed and later died in hospital. The man, who was her employer, shot himself several days later at his shop in Church Road, Applegate. The man had been a well-known Freemason.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Thursday 22 October 1931
see Western Daily Press - Saturday 10 October 1931
see Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Saturday 10 October 1931
see Western Morning News - Monday 12 October 1931
see Northern Whig - Monday 12 October 1931
see Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 14 October 1931
see Unsolved 1931
