Rene Florence York

Rene Florence York was suddenly taken ill on the Monday night, 23 March 1942 and was admitted to hospital the following day where she died about five minutes after admission.

The doctors said that they could find no marks of violence on her body and a post-mortem was ordered. However, when the post-mortem did not reveal her cause of death her organs were sent off to the Home Office pathologist in Nottingham who later determined that she had died from an overdose of aspirins and reported that 21.5 grains of aspiring, the equivalent of seven tablets, was found.