Henry Daniel Seymour

Henry Seymour murdered Alice Louisa Kempson 58 who he stabbed and battered at Boundary House, St Clements, Oxford on 1 August 1931.

Henry Seymour had called at a woman’s house that lived 10 minutes away from Alice Kempson. He sold the woman a new vacuum cleaner. After he asked to borrow some money from the woman saying that his money had been stolen when he had gone swimming. Later he returned when the woman and her husband were at home and said that he had missed the bus and they allowed him to stay for the night.