Age: 0
Sex: female
Date: 27 Feb 1907
Place: River Rye, Newsham
A child was found in a brown paper parcel lying in the weeds by the River Rye.
The parcel was found by a couple that were walking near the river lying in the weeds and rushes.
There had been a handkerchief tied round the child's neck, but not tightly.
There were no marks of violence and no foot marks near the place.
A superintendent said that from his inspection of the place that the embankment had slipped and that nobody in a weak state would have been able to have got down and that he thought that it had been the intention of the person that had taken the child there to throw it in the water.
The doctor that examined the child said that the child had had a separate existence and had been born about five days before he examined it and had lived for 24 hours.
The jury returned a verdict of murder by some person or persons unknown.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 27 February 1907
see Leeds Mercury - Wednesday 27 February 1907