Age: 0
Sex: female
Date: 1 Sep 1905
Place: Whalebone Inn, Fingringhoe, Colchester
A dead baby was found in a pond at Whalebone Inn.
The child's legs had been cut off before being put into a sack and weighted down and thrown into the pond. When the body was recovered it was found to have been horribly mutilated and decomposed.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Chelmsford Chronicle - Friday 01 September 1905
see Lancashire Evening Post - Friday 25 August 1905
see Unsolved 1905
