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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.


*map pointers are rough estimates based on known location details as per Place field above.

see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see Western Times - Friday 28 January 1921

see Unsolved 1921