Age: 0
Sex: male
Date: 27 Nov 1901
Place: Gilray Square, Chelsea
A baby was found in a parcel in Gilray Street, Chelsea.
A resident on the street had seen some small boys kicking a parcel about and he then saw the legs of a child protruding and called the police.
The body had been wrapped in five sheets of brown paper on which was found a blue label with, 'Midland Railway (parcel from Nottingham), paid' on it as well as a white label with the name of a firm of drapers in Cambridge on it.
The surgeon said that the child's skull was fractured and there was a mark on the lower lip where the upper gum had been pressed. He said that its nose was flattened and wrapped round its head there was a long piece of grey and striped blanket which was tied with a piece of linen, and that a portion of the blanket had been forced into its mouth.
He said that the child had been alive for several hours and had had food and that its death was due to asphyxia. He said he had no doubt that the child had been stunned by a blow to the head and then a blanket had been forced into its mouth.
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see Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 27 November 1901