Age: 0
Sex: female
Date: 10 Jan 1903
Place: Wandsworth Common, London
The body of a newly-born female child was found between Wandsworth Common and Clapham Junction Station.
The body was discovered by a gardener wrapped up in a piece of new marble pattern American cloth, a sheet of brown paper, and a piece of sacking. A lady's pocket-handkerchief was also found tied tightly around the child's neck which was marked 'M. Howard' in black ink.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Derby Daily Telegraph - Saturday 10 January 1903
see Portsmouth Evening News - Saturday 10 January 1903
see Unsolved 1903