Age: 37
Sex: female
Date: 27 Jan 1923
Place: 13a Blossom Alley, Portsea
Mary Frances Pelham was found dead in her bed.
She was a flower seller and a prostitute. She was also married to a man who at the time of her murder was in Shorehan but had led people to believe in general that her husband was dead.
see Portsmouth Evening News - Thursday 22 February 1923
see Dundee Courier - Wednesday 07 March 1923
see Sunday Illustrated - Sunday 04 February 1923 (images)
see Portsmouth Evening News - Tuesday 30 January 1923 (includes photo of Mary Pelham)
see Portsmouth Evening News - Monday 29 January 1923
see National Archives - MEPO 3/1584
see The News
see Unsolved 1923
