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Age: 0

Sex: male

Date: 4 Feb 1903

Place: Chestnut Avenue, Victoria Road, Headingley

The body of a newly-born child was found in an ashpit.

A woman found the body wrapped up in paper in the ashpit attached to her house. She said that the shape of the parcel made her suspicious and so she called the police.


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

see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see Leeds Mercury - Wednesday 04 February 1903

see Unsolved 1903