Age: 32
Sex: female
Date: 1 Dec 1914
Place: 4 Lench Street, Birmingham
Ellen Agnes Armstrong died from an illegal operation.
A woman was tried for her murder but no evidence was offered and she was acquitted. When questioned by the police she had said 'Yes, I have nothing to say only that I do not know the person' although she subsequently said that she did remember a woman named Armstrong of Stirchley coming to see her at her home. The woman had lived on Avondale Road in Sparkhill.
see discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
see National Archives - ASSI 13/44
see Evening Despatch - Tuesday 01 December 1914
see Birmingham Mail - Wednesday 21 October 1914
see National Library of Scotland
see Unsolved 1914