Age: 0
Sex: male
Date: 23 Aug 1909
Place: 1 Railway Cottages, Abbey Road, Stratford, London
The body of a newly born male child was found in a back garden in Stratford.
The child had a number of puncture wounds in its throat, and marks of burning on its chest and abdomen as though it had been placed on a hot grate.
The puncture wounds were given as the cause of death.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Monday 23 August 1909
see Chelmsford Chronicle - Friday 27 August 1909