Age: 29
Sex: male
Date: 3 Jan 1937
Place: Comforts Avenue, Scunthorpe
Cecil Walter Teesdale was shot at the breakfast table by his wife at their home on 28 December 1936 and died six days later on 3 January 1937.
His wife was tried for his murder and manslaughter at the Lincoln Assizes on 10 February 1937 but was acquitted. She had said that Cecil Teesdale had told her that the revolver that she had shot him with was loaded with blanks.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Sheffield Independent - Tuesday 02 March 1937
see Western Morning News - Wednesday 10 February 1937
see Daily Herald - Saturday 23 January 1937
see Western Daily Press - Tuesday 05 January 1937
see Hull Daily Mail - Monday 08 February 1937
see Hull Daily Mail - Tuesday 09 February 1937
see Unsolved 1937
