Age: 71
Sex: female
Date: 1 Jan 1956
Place: 121 New Chester Road, New Ferry, Cheshire
Maria Southwood was found dead in her sweet and tobacco shop on New Year's Day, Sunday 1 January 1956 at about 11.30am.
Her injuries were described as slight, but the police said that there were still suspicious circumstances around her death. However, they declined to give any details about the nature of her injuries or details concerning the state of the room that she was found in.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 10 January 1956, p5
see Liverpool Echo - Thursday 05 January 1956
see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Tuesday 10 January 1956
see Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 03 January 1956
see Unsolved 1956
