Age: 78
Sex: female
Date: 11 Jan 1953
Place: Clifton Street, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire
Elizabeth Thomas was found injured in her cottage on the evening of Saturday 10 January 1953 and taken to hospital where she later died at 9.10am on the morning of Sunday 11 January 1953.
She had been beaten about the head with a stick and stabbed in the front and back and had died from shock. The stick was left behind in the hall and was found to have had human hair on it, but the knife was never found.
see National Archives - ASSI 91/45, ASSI 84/157, MEPO 2/9534
see Daily Mirror Fri 27 Feb 1953 Page 16
see Liverpool Echo - Thursday 26 February 1953
see Daily Herald - Saturday 07 March 1953
see Daily Herald - Wednesday 25 March 1953
see Daily Mirror Wed 25 Mar 1953 Page 5
see Western Mail - Wednesday 11 November 1953
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Monday 19 January 1953
see Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Tuesday 24 March 1953
see Western Mail - Wednesday 25 February 1953
see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Wednesday 11 November 1953
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Tuesday 27 January 1953
see Reddit
see Unsolved 1953
