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Age: 0

Sex: female

Date: 9 May 1903

Place: Argyll Lane, Kensington, London

The body of a newly-born female child was found in a parcel at Argyll Lane, Kensington on the evening of Saturday 2 May 1903.

A divisional police surgeon said that the child had lived and had had a separate existence and that he found a pad of cotton-wool in its throat that had cause suffocation. He said that the pad must have been put in the child's mouth intentionally and had been the cause of death.


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see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see Cheltenham Chronicle - Saturday 09 May 1903, p4

see Unsolved 1903