Age: 25
Sex: male
Date: 29 Apr 1904
Place: 30 Jarretts Buildings, Worsborough Dale, Barnsley
John William Ward died after a lamp set him on fire during a row with his sister-in-law.
His 32-year-old sister-in-law was tried for his manslaughter but acquitted after the jury found that there was not sufficient evidence to convict her.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Yorkshire Evening Post - Friday 29 July 1904
see Belper News - Friday 20 May 1904
see Barnsley Chronicle - Saturday 06 August 1904
see Denise Bates
see Unsolved 1904
