Age: 6 weeks
Sex: female
Date: 2 Mar 1917
Place: Neyland, Pembrokeshire
The body of a six-week-old female child was found on the shore near Neyland in Pembrokeshire.
It was found in a bag weighed down with pieces of iron at low water.
A doctor stated that death was due to suffocation and that the child was probably dead before being placed in the bag.
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see Monmouthshire Beacon - Friday 16 March 1917