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