Age: 0
Sex: male
Date: 11 Jan 1919
Place: Rectory Gates, Sandon
The body of a newly-born female child was found wrapped in a paper parcel near the Rectory Gates, Sandon.
The body was found by a milkman who had been driving from Chelmsford to Sandon when he saw a paper parcel in a hedge. He stopped to take a look and found the body and then reported it to the police.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Essex Newsman - Saturday 11 January 1919
see Unsolved 1919