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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 most frightful tragedies That human devilment could plan Or human fiend could perpetrate The name of the victim was Miss Emma Anne Whitehead Keyse An elderly lady of some sixty-eight years The namе of her home And the scеne 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