THE DOUBLE MURDER AT LYTHAM – 27, CECIL STREET, LYTHAM – 02/11/1886
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT LYTHAM. DOUBLE MURDER LAST NIGHT. - The first report - Wednesday, November 3 rd , 1886 – Lytham Times A thrill of horror pervaded Lytham last evening as a rumour got afloat that two persons had been murdered in a house in Cecil-street, a good street off Church-road, at the west end of the town. It seemed at first impossible to credit the report, but it proved to be too true. The particulars, so far as at present known, or, in fact, so far as are likely to be known, are as follow:--Between four and five o'clock last evening, whilst P.C. Murray was on duty in Westby-street, a man named Mellor came up to him and asked him to come with him as far No. 27, Cecil-street, "as two women had hurted themselves." Murray went to the house with Mellor, and on going into the kitchen Mellor pointed to a female lying on a sofa with her head battered in and said, " this is one." He then took the Police Officer into the yard, where another female was stretc...
