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The customary quiet of Babbacombe, a residential suburb of Torquay, was greatly disturbed early on Saturday morning

And the peaceful inhabitants were aroused to a state of intense alarm and terror by one of the greatest tragedies that human devilment could plan or human deed could perpetrate

The name of the victim was Miss Emma Anne Whitehead Keyes, an elderly lady of some sixty-eight years

The name of her home and the scene of her tragedy, was 'The Glen'

She was found early in the morning, lying on her dining room floor

Her throat had been horribly cut and there were three wounds on her head

It was evident that her murderer had also attempted to burn the corpse