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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.


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

see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see Chelmsford Chronicle - Friday 07 January 1927

see Unsolved 1927