Shot dead by Eric Ronald Wilshire
1891 aged 8, living near Burge End with his parents, William and Mary Cooper, and siblings Emma, Mary Ann, Charles, Arthur, Ethel, nieces Alice Cooper and Minnie Odell and grandmother Mary Cooper.
1901 not with family in census.
Appeals against sentence of death fail
The Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday dismissed appeals against sentence of death passed on two former soldiers, ERIC RONALD WILSHERE (19) Ickleford, Hitchin, and TERENCE O'BRIEN (28) of Mossley (Lancashire).
Wilshere was sentenced at Bedford Assizes for shooting HARRY COOPER (550 farmer, at Pirton, Hertfordshire. The jury had strongly recommended him to mercy.
Birmingham Daily Post Tuesday 7 November 1939
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aged 55 at time of death.