Age: 50
Sex: female
Date: 14 Jul 1920
Place: Clovelly Villa, Cranbourne Road, Waterloo, Ashton-under-Lyne
Kate Ward was found lying in a pool of blood on her kitchen floor with her hands tied behind her back with a piece of clothes line and a quantity of towelling tied around her mouth some of which was inside her mouth.
A bloodstained iron bar and hammer were found nearby.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Thursday 22 July 1920
see Cornishman - Wednesday 25 August 1920
see Western Daily Press - Tuesday 17 August 1920
see Aberdeen Journal - Thursday 19 August 1920
see Leeds Mercury - Tuesday 17 August 1920
see Lancashire Evening Post - Friday 16 July 1920
see Unsolved 1920