Joseph Spooner

Joseph Spooner was convicted of the murder of his three-year-old daughter Elizabeth Alice Spooner and sentenced to death.

He cut her throat at the rear of 64 Oliver Street in Liverpool on 26 February 1914 and she died in hospital the following day, 27 February 1914.

Joseph Spooner was a dock labourer and had served in the Army. He was married and had five children.

About six years earlier his wife had separated from him on account of his drinking habits and around that time, 1908, he was bound over for attempting suicide. However, he and his wife later got back together, but in December 1913 she left him again and summoned him in January 1914 for child cruelty and she obtained a separation order and 12/- a week.