The Babbacombe Murder: Official Case Archive
The true story of the 1884 Babbacombe murder of Emma Keyse
Gloucester Citizen – Saturday 22 November 1884 THE BABBICOMBE MURDER. The adjourned inquest on the body of Miss Keyse was resumed in St. Mary Church Town Hall, Torquay, on Friday. The prisoner, John Lee, was brought up in a cab by two police-officers. He was pale, but jumped nimbly out and ran lightly up the […]
THE MURDER AT BABBACOMBE. Public excitement in reference to the murder of Miss Keyse, an elderly lady, residing at the Glen, Babbacombe, early on Saturday morning, under circumstances already reported, continues unabated in the district. The inquest was opened in the music room at Babbacombe Glen, the residence of the deceased lady, at eleven o’clock […]
Pall Mall Gazette – Thursday 20 November 1884: THE BABBACOMBE MURDER. John Lee, aged twenty, was brought before the magistrates at Torquay yesterday charged with being concerned in the murder of Miss Emma Keyse, who was found dead in her drawing-room early on Saturday morning last. The hatchet and knife with which the crime is […]
Western Times – Tuesday 18 November 1884 THE MURDER AT BABBACOMBE.—THE INQUEST. Public excitement in reference to the murder of Miss Keyse, an elderly lady, residing at the Glen, Babbacombe, early on Saturday morning, under circumstances reported yesterday (and which will be found in our seventh page), continues unabated in the district. The man John […]
Express and Echo – Monday 17 November 1884 THE MURDER AT BABBACOMBE.FURTHER DETAILS.THE INQUEST. As we briefly reported in our issue of Saturday, a shocking tragedy was perpetrated at Babbacombe, near Torquay, early the same morning. The details of the occurrence—the position in which the deceased lady was found, the nature of the injuries inflicted […]
