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Age: 0

Sex: male

Date: 31 Mar 1917

Place: Rayleigh, Essex

The body of a newly-born male infant was found dead in a hedge near Rayleigh Station.

It had been wrapped up in a piece of black sateen apron and brown paper and tied up with string, and placed in a hedge at the side of the Great Eastern Railway at Rayleigh, near the station.

It was said that the body had been recently deposited.

The inquest, which was heard on Saturday 31 March 1917, returned a verdict of murder against some person or persons unknown.


*map pointers are rough estimates based on known location details as per Place field above.

see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see Essex Newsman - Saturday 07 April 1917

see Chelmsford Chronicle - Friday 06 April 1917

see Police Gazette - Tuesday 03 April 1917