Age: 54
Sex: male
Date: 15 Dec 1957
Place: Chatsworth Street, Liverpool, Merseyside
Joseph Farrell died on 15 December 1957. He was stabbed during a quarrel following a night of drinking and taken to hospital but later died.
His 47-year-old wife was tried for his murder at Liverpool Crown Court on Wednesday 19 February 1958 but acquitted. She admitted striking him but said that she had not known that she had had a knife in her hand until afterwards.
see newswirral.co.uk
see National Archives - ASSI 52/978, DPP 2/2758
see Shields Daily News - Wednesday 19 February 1958
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Thursday 16 January 1958
see Manchester Evening News - Wednesday 19 February 1958
see Manchester Evening News - Thursday 16 January 1958
see Leicester Evening Mail - Monday 16 December 1957
see Unsolved 1957
