The Scotsman, 10th July 1908
On this day is reported a murder near Aldershot of a “particularly revolting character” . A milk carrier called at a shed in the early hours to find the body of Edith Bateman (aged about 40) naked and kicked to death. There where heavy boot marks all over her head and body with the report adding that all her clothing, with the exception of her stockings had been stripped from her. Her purse had been emptied and the pockets of her dress turned inside out. She had last been seen in the company of a man near the scene of the murder.
Modern day headline perhaps, “Kicked to death for the contents of her purse !”
This story is also reported in the Times as well, although it ads that the victim was the daughter of respectable village folk although she “had for some years led a depraved life”. Hmm, that’s not a term you’d see often today I think.
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