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.
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
see Unsolved 1917
