Photo Of The Day
The Officer's House scene of the murder of Emily Kaye. Demolished in 1953. On this day in 1924, Patrick Mahon was arrested on suspicion of murder after the bag he tried to claim at the Waterloo train station in London was found to contain a bloody knife. Mahon confessed that his pregnant mistress had slipped and hit her head, shortly dying afterwards. In a panic to save his marriage, he claimed, he tried to hide the body. Police found Emily Kaye's dismembered remains hidden among various biscuit tins and suitcases and after the medical examiner painstakingly pieced her body back together, with the exception of her head that Mahon had burned in the oven, it was determined that her death was not an accident and that Mahon was responsible. Mahon was executed in September 1924. This grisly case is particularly notable because it led to rubber gloves becoming standard equipment at murder scenes. ...