Age: 62
Sex: male
Date: 23 Mar 1932
Place: Skipton, Yorkshire
Joseph Swaine was found in a lavatory at Skipton Auction Mart, a cattle market, at about 9am on Thursday 24 March 1932 with severe head wounds.
It was thought that he had been attacked from behind the day before, 23 March 1932, between 2.45pm and 3.30pm while the Auction Mart sale was in progress.
see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Monday 28 March 1932
see The Scotsman - Monday 28 March 1932
see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Monday 18 April 1932
see Nottingham Journal - Wednesday 04 May 1932
see Belfast News-Letter - Wednesday 04 May 1932
see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Thursday 19 May 1932
see Nottingham Evening Post - Wednesday 25 May 1932
see Shipley Times and Express - Saturday 30 April 1932
see Unsolved 1932