Age: 0
Sex: male
Date: 16 Jan 1921
Place: Wellswood Hall, Torquay
The body of a newly-born male infant was found wrapped up in brown paper in a field adjoining Wellswood Hall, Torquay.
The child had been suffocated by a wad of paper that had been thrust tightly into its throat.
Death was stated to have been caused by suffocation.