Age: 0
Sex: male
Date: 27 Sep 1902
Place: Cottenham Road, Holloway, London
The body of a dead male child was found wrapped up in brown paper in Cottenham Road in Islington on Saturday 27 September 1902.
It was found by a schoolboy that had lived in Cottenham Road. He said that he had seen a lady looking at a parcel in the gutter and that he went to have a look and found that it contained the body of a child and so he went and informed the police.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Thursday 02 October 1902
see Islington Gazette - Friday 03 October 1902
see National Library of Scotland
see Unsolved 1902
