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Emily Maye sr

Age: 70

Sex: female

Date: 12 Jun 1936

Place: Croft Farm, Croft Park, West Charleton, Devon

Emily Maye sr, Emily Joan Maye jr and Gwenyth Maye were found dead at a farmhouse.

The father was tried for their murders but acquitted after the judge stopped the trial and directed the jury to acquit him when the medical evidence was heard, and the prosecution said that they would offer no further evidence. The medical evidence included a statement from a doctor who stated that the father’s injuries could not have been self-inflicted and were enough to have killed many other people.


*map pointers are rough estimates based on known location details as per Place field above.

see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see Londonderry Sentinel - Tuesday 10 November 1936

see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Monday 09 November 1936

see Western Morning News - Tuesday 10 November 1936, (includes picture of Croft Farm)

see Unsolved 1936