Daily Herald — Saturday 7 January 1928 RIDDLE OF THREE DEAD WOMEN
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Daily Herald — Saturday 7 January 1928
RIDDLE OF THREE DEAD WOMEN Unexplained Tragedies of London Commons Two more women were testerday found dead commons in London. making three within three days. case lias any explanation lite tragedies been found. In the Wimbledon Common swamp, only yards from the place in which the body Mrs. Adamson was found on Wednesday, was found in the morning a identified last night Air. .lohn William Hunt, of Peckham. that of Ml rift, Mr*- Idea nor Eva Hunt, aged M. who bad been misting from since the previous day. Mrs. flu** sai- 1 L.ive good health and woman cheerful disposition. , Children playing on Wandsworth Common, also in the morning, saw " bundle " floating on the lake, which is about four feet deep. keeper found the bnndle'' to he the body woman, afterwards identified as Mrs. Adelaide Potter, aged 62. widow, of Cotherntonestreet, who had been since Thursday night. handbag found near the pond led her identification.
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"aily News (London) — Saturday 7 January 1928 / 3 WOMEN DROWNED.
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Daily News (London) — Saturday 7 January 1928
3 WOMEN DROWNED. SECOND CASE IN SWAMPS OF WIMBLEDON. Three death mysteriestwo on Wimbledon Common and one on Wandsworth Commonare being inquired into by the London pollee. The second Wimbledon Common mystery within the space of two days was discovered yesterday morning. A keeper found the body of an unknown woman lying in the stretch of water known as the swamps. on the eaitern edge of the comm .- on. where the body of Mrs. Adamson, a Marylebone cook, was found on Wednesday. It was only a few yards from the footpath. The water is about 3ft. deep. The woman was identified late last night by Air. John W. Hunt, Choumertroad Peckham, as his wife, Eleanor Eva Hunt, aged M. She is said to have been a woman of cheerful disposition, and her husband cannot account for her visit to Wimbledon Common. The body of Mrs. Adelaide Potter, W. widow, of Cotherstone-road. Brixton. lull, was recovered from Belle Vile ' Pond, Wandsworth Common. yester-day. A handbag found near the pond led to identification. Mrs. Potter was onky missed from her home on Thursday night.
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"Westminster Gazette — Saturday 7 January 1928
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Westminster Gazette — Saturday 7 January 1928
TRAGIC COMMONS. THREE WOMEN'S BODIES IN PONDS.
Following the discovery, in mysterious circumstances, of an elderly woman's body in a swamp on thimbledmi Common, the bodies of two more elderly women were found yesterdayone in the same swamp on Wimbledon Common, and the other in a lake ou Wandsworth Common. The body on Wimbledon Common was discovered in about two feet of water, only a few yards front the place where Mrs. Adamson's body was found on Wednesday. It had apparently been there for about ten to twelve hours. The discovery was made by children playing on the Common. and the body was later identified as that of Eleanor Eva Hunt, aged years. The identification was made by her husband. Mr. John William Hunt. of Peckham. SE.
The body found in Belle Vue Pond. Wandsworth Common, was identified as that of Mrs. Adelaide Potter. aged C 2. widow. of Cotherstone-street. Streatham. A handbag led to identification. There is no suggestion of foul play.
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192817"Daily Mirror — Saturday 7 January 1928 /. MYSTERY OF 3 WOMEN
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Daily Mirror — Saturday 7 January 1928
MYSTERY OF 3 WOMEN
Second Body Found in Wimbledon Common Swamp Within Few Days London police are ir-restigating three tragedies, the victims in each case being women whose bodies were found in swamps or ponds. In the same swamp on Wimbledon Common in which the body of Mrs. Adamson was found on Wednesday a keeper yesterday came upon another dead woman. About sixty . years of age, the woman appeared to have been in the water ten or twelve hours. There was no sign of a struggle. She was identified last night as the wife of Mr. John William Hunt, Choumert-road, Peckham. The body of Mrs. Adelaide Botter, of Cotherstone-street, Streatham. was yesterday recovered from. Belle Vue Pond, Wandsworth Common. She had been missing from home since the previous night.
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"Dundee Evening Telegraph — Monday 9 January 1928 / 3 drowned women IWimbledon & WC
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Dundee Evening Telegraph — Monday 9 January 1928
POND WITH A SINISTER REPUTATION.
Three Women Found Drowned. Scotland Yard Called In. Three mysterious tragedies on London commons are now engaging the atention of the police. In each case the victims are women whose dead bodies have been found in ponds or swamps.
Wimbledon police are making inquiries into the death of an unknown woman, about 60 years of age, whose body was discovered in 4 ft. of water on Wimbledon Common. The body has been examined by the police surgeon, and, while nothing has been discovered that would suggest foul play, the police are being particularly careful in their investigation, in view of coincidence. The spot where the body was found only 2 ft. or ft. from where the body of another woman, Mrs Adamson, was found on Tuesday with a gash in her throat. It was suggested that the wound in Mrs throat might have been caused by cut received as she fell into the water and broke the ice. The circumstances in that case were so suspicious that Scotland Yard detectives took up the inquiries. The woman, whose body was found, was well dressed, and it is believed that she had been in the water for eight or ten hours. Although the pool where the body was found is almost bordered a main road across the common from Wimbledon, the drowned woman was not noticed until about 10 a.m. The discovery was made one of the common keepers going on his usual morning rounds. His attention was drawn to the pool by a dark object floating on the top of the water. investigated the matter, and found woman's coat, which was attached by one sleeve to the body of an elderly woman. The body was lying behind a clump of rushes. The park keeper called a butcher's boy, who was cycling past at the time, and asked him to summon a policeman, and the woman's body was then taken out of the water. Swampy Marsh. The pond in which the bodies were found is known locally as the " Swamps." Actually, it is not a pond, but a dip in the Common land, which frequently fills with rain-water during the wet season, but the summer is nothing more than a pool. Recently, however, owing to the very heavy rains and the thaw of ice and snow, the water has been lapping over the footpath, and has become a waste of swampy marsh yards or 300 yards across. There are many clumps of rushes in the vicinity similar to the one near which the body was found. This may account for the fact that the discovery was not made earlier in the day. So far as can be ascertained at the moment, no woman answering the description of the drowned person, is missing from the Wimbledon area. No marks of violence have been found on the body, but tho coincidence of the two women being found drowned in the same pool within few feet of each other, and within two or three days, is so remarkable that the pool is acquiring sinister reputation in the neighbourhood. Women residents in the district are avoiding the road which leads past this silent black stretch of water.
The body of another woman, aged about 65, has been recovered from a pond on Wandsworth Common. She had apparently been in the water for about week.
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"Surrey Mirror — Friday 13 January 1928 / Suicide of woman in "Belle Vue Pond"
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Surrey Mirror — Friday 13 January 1928
The body of Mrs. Adelaide Potter, aged 62, widow of Cothcrstono-street. Streatham. S.W., was recovered on Friday by the police from Belle Vue Pond, Wandsworth Common.
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"Vote — Friday 20 January 1928 / Call for women police on WC
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Vote — Friday 20 January 1928
THE VOTE THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL. In another column we . publish a list of women who have been adopted as candidates for the forthcoming elections in March, and in the next few weeks we hope to add others to the list. In the meantime, we shall be sending the following questions to all candidates, men and women : Will you, if elected, (I) Do all in your power to secure that women and men employed by the London County Council shall have equal treatment in regard to opportunities and payment? (2) Work actively for the rescinding of the Council's resolution, which requires its women employees to resign their positions on marriage? (3) Press for the employment of women police or women park-keepers by the Council in all its parks andopen spaces? (4) Urge the London County Council to provide and run lodging-houses for women on the same lines as the lodging-houses which they run for men? We rely upon our readers to help us to get these questions not only before the candidates, but also before the electorate.
It is essential that the electors should understand our demand for the equal treatment of women and men in regard to opportunities and remuneration. We want to see all posts under the Council open to men and women alikethe ratepayers have a right to expect the members elected by them to choose the best person for the vacant position, irrespective of the sex of that person and irrespective also of the fact whether that person is married or single. The question, too, of the patrolling of parks and open spaces is an urgent one. Women police ought to be on duty on Clapham Common, Wandsworth Common, in Battersea Park, Brockwell Park, Finsbury Park, and Victoria Park, all of which come under the jurisdiction of the London County Council. If the Home Office will not provide women police, then the Council should appoint its own women officials to patrol these parks and commons.
Mrs. Cecil Chesterton is dealing valiantly with the question of lodging-houses for women, but why should this matter be left to private initiative ? The Council provides well-equipped common lodging-houses for men. Why should not the ratepayers' money provide decent accommodation also for homeless women? Women as well as men pay rates under the London County Council, and women have a right to claim that the money spent by the Council should be in the interests of both men and women. The sundry, mysterious, ill-defined and uncontrovertible reasons against extending to women these municipal common lodging-houses, so possible, useful, and necessary for men, never struck us as having any force, and now that, in Cecil Houses, the usual successful concrete example has been held up by private individuals before the eye of the public, there is no further excuse for officialism, in delaying this sorely needed reform.
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Norwood News- Friday 27 January 1928 / Seagulls
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Norwood News- Friday 27 January 1928
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Despite the mild weather. a large
number of seagulls still remain on
Wandsworth Common. and some people
thing this is a sign of another return
of cold weather"1928127
Norwood News- Friday 30 November 1928
P.C. KNOCKED DOWN.
WHILE CARRYING SACK OF POTATOES.
Carrying a sack of potatoes on his back, P.C. Jakeman. of Wandsworth Common Police Station. Trinity-road, was returning from his allotment in Burntwood-lane. Wandsworth Common, on Friday afternoon, when he was struck and knocked down by a motor car. He was taken to the station, where he was treated for injuries to the back by the divisional-surgeon, and was afterwards taken home.
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