A Child's Mysterious Death at Swansea
| Published date | 01 July 1934 |
| Date | 01 July 1934 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X3400700308 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
AChild's Mysterious
Death
at
Swansea
ACASE of more than usual interest which the Swansea
Police were called upon to investigate occurred at
Mor-
riston, near Swansea, on the afternoon of the
joth
January,
1934, when the death of Doris Miriam Leyshon was the
subject of inquiries.
The
circumstances of the case were as follows :
On the afternoon of the 30th January, 1934, the mother of
the child dressed her and took her to her grandmother's house
about half a mile away. When dressing the child the mother
placed an artificial silk scarf in two loops round her neck.
The
scarf was about ayard long and it was tied in a careless,
gypsy type of bow on the left hand side of the neck, with the
bow to the front.
The
little girl was wearing two coats and
the ends of the scarf were placed over the one coat and under-
neath the other and were thus concealed from view.
The
mother and the child arrived at their destination
about 3p.m., and, whilst the mother assisted with the house-
work, the little girl played around the house.
The
houses in Bath Road, Morriston, are built in rows on
either side of the road,
but
at one end, and adjoining the block
of cottages in which the grandmother lived, is a piece of rough
waste ground.
It
slopes slightly upwards from the roadway
to the rear of the houses on the roadway above and is used
principally as a short cut to a 'bus route.
It
is the recognized
playground for the children in the neighbourhood
and
it is
overlooked by the persons using the roadway.
About 30 yards from the grandmother's house and about
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