Age: 24
Sex: female
Date: 26 Jul 1919
Place: 29 Peel Street, Cardiff
Florence Reeves was shot. A coloured man was tried for her murder but acquitted.
The coloured man who had been lodging at the boarding house was tried. He said that he had been asleep at the time with his head on the table and was awoken by the sound of an explosion and found Florence Reeves dead.
see www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
see National Archives - ASSI 72/45/6
see Western Daily Press - Saturday 08 November 1919
see Yorkshire Evening Post - Saturday 26 July 1919
see Dundee People's Journal - Saturday 19 July 1919
see Unsolved 1919