Age: 0
Sex: female
Date: 12 Mar 1924
Place: Reading Room, Allonby
The body of a newly-born female child was found by a man out walking his dog at the Reading Room near Allonby.
The man had been out earlier walking his dog heading towards Silloth when he saw his dog near the Reading Room. He then went home and later saw his dog coming back over the Skew Bridge with something in its mouth which turned out to be the baby's arm.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Lancashire Evening Post - Wednesday 12 March 1924
see Unsolved 1924