William Joseph Ward

Unsolved Murders

Age: 19

Sex: male

Date: 29 Nov 1920

Place: Parliament Street, Liverpool

William Joseph Ward was shot during the Sinn Fein incendiary outrages in Liverpool.

Two men were charged with his murder but acquitted at the Liverpool Assizes on 5 February 1921. The man that was alleged to have fired the shot was a 19-year-old plasterer whilst the other man was a 28-year-old dock labourer.

*map pointers are rough estimates based on known location details as per Place field above.

see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see National Archives - ASSI 52/320, DPP 1/60

see Western Daily Press - Friday 04 February 1921, p8

see Londonderry Sentinel - Saturday 05 February 1921

see Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Monday 29 November 1920

see Western Daily Press - Monday 29 November 1920

see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Monday 29 November 1920

see Dundee Courier - Monday 29 November 1920

see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Monday 29 November 1920

see Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Monday 29 November 1920

see Edinburgh Evening News - Monday 29 November 1920

see Derby Daily Telegraph - Monday 29 November 1920

see Unsolved 1920