Age: 0
Sex: female
Date: 2 Jan 1927
Place: London Road, Southend, Essex
The body of a newly-born child was found wrapped up in a parcel at the rear of a house on the London Road.
It was found by a woman who was going down her garden at the rear of her house wheeling a perambulator when the wheels got caught against an object lying in the gateway. She saw that it was a brown paper parcel and when she broke it open she saw the body of a dead female child.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Chelmsford Chronicle - Friday 07 January 1927
see Unsolved 1927