Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Wednesday 24 October 1917

Walter Skelton (33), whose home is at Wombwell, and who since 1912 has been an inmate of the Barnsley Workhouse, was jesterday found dead in the workhouse yard.

Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Wednesday 24 October 1917

Inquest at Barnsley.

At an inquest at Barnsley yesterday, a verdict  of ” Death from natural causes” was returned  relative to Walter Shelton (33), late of Blythe  Street, Wombwell, who was found dead in the  Barnsley Workhouse yard