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.
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