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    MURDER IN THE FAMILY

    Feb 11, 2020 4 minutes

    On 1 April 1926, detectives from the City of Leeds Police called at a house in Amberley Road, Wortley. The previous day, Mrs Lily Waterhouse of that address had visited the Town Hall and told police that she was living in fear of her tenant and housemate, Louise Calvert. Lily was asked to return the day after, but she did not appear.

    ‘Louie claimed she had accidentally hit Lily on the head with a poker’

    The police were worried, and they had good cause. Upon entering the house, the detectives found Lily’s body in a small bedroom. She had clearly been brutally attacked, and there were ligatures tied at her wrists and

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