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Age: 0

Sex: female

Date: 1 Dec 1920

Place: Woolley, Wakefield, Yorkshire

The body of a newly born female child was found in Woolley on the Wakefield and Barnsley Road on the afternoon of Sunday 14 November 1920.

 A fam labourer had earlier seen a green taxicab coming from the direction of Wakefield. He said that the driver was wearing a uniform and that on the near side there was a woman. When he returned, he saw three men looking at a pillowslip which wasn't there before. The pillowslip contained the body of a dead child.


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see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see Leeds Mercury - Wednesday 01 December 1920

see Unsolved 1920