Baby

Age: 0

Sex: male

Date: 16 Jan 1927

Place: Driffield Canal, Driffield, Yorkshire

The body of a newly-born child was found in the Driffield Canal on the afternoon of Sunday 16 January 1927.

The child had been choked to death after having a tuft of grass stuffed into its mouth. It had then been thrown into the canal.

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

see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 18 January 1927

see Hull Daily Mail - Tuesday 18 January 1927

see Unsolved 1927