Age: unknown
Sex: female
Date: 3 Aug 1910
Place: 18 Cumberland Street, Nelson
Beatrice Shepherd died from an illegal operation.
The coroners concluded that Beatrice Shepherd had died on 3 August 1910 that the Burnley Union Workhouse having died from peritonitis resulting from an illegal operation that had been performed on her by some person or persons unknown and that that person or those persons unknown did feloniously and wilfully kill and murder her.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Lancashire Evening Post - Friday 05 August 1910
see Burnley Express - Saturday 06 August 1910
see Unsolved 1910