§ Mr. DAYasked the Home Secretary the number of cases during the previous two years in which a verdict of murder has been returned in the coroner's court against some person or persons unknown, and for which no subsequent arrest or conviction has taken place?
§ Mr. CLYNESIn the years 1928 and 1929, taken together, there were known1178W to the police murders of 13 persons aged one year and upwards in respect of which murder suspects were neither arrested nor found to have committed suicide. There were also in the two years taken together murders of 39 infants aged under one year in respect of which no arrests were made, usually because the infants were newly-born and their bodies were discovered in circumstances that gave no tangible clue.