The Murder of Lily White
On the evening of 21 July 1937, a
one-handed workman
called Frederick Corneby walked into the police station at
Hythe in Hampshire and admitted to killing his pregnant
fiancée. At first he said he had strangled her. Then he
confessed to smothering her. Much later, he denied
murdering her altogether.
Less than a mile away, the body of Lily White was discovered
in woodland on the outskirts of Hythe. Postmortem
examination indicated she had died from asphyxiation.
But her death raised many bewildering questions. Was this
a suicide pact gone wrong? Or had something darker, far
more depraved, taken place?
The Murder of Lily White turns the spotlight on a little-known
and long-forgotten homicide from the western shore of
Southampton Water. It is a sad and sordid tale of misfortune,
interwar austerity, and deviant sexual passions.
David Green is the author of three previous true crime
works: The Havant Boy Ripper, Trial of Frederick Baker, and The
Mad Sailor of Petersfield. He works as a freelance book indexer.
Published March 2024
ISBN 9781904109396
Size 152mm x 256mm
244 pages
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