Age: 0
Sex: male
Date: 23 Sep 1911
Place: Southrop, Lechlade, Gloucestershire
The body of a newly born infant was found decomposed in a field in Southrop.
The body was found by a carter that had lived in Langford, Oxon as he was riding in a cart down the Southrop to Filkins Road near Lechlade, when he noticed what appeared to be a brown paper parcel of groceries lying in a shallow cavity under the roots of a maple tree of a hedge.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Cheltenham Chronicle - Saturday 23 September 1911
see Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard - Saturday 30 September 1911
see Unsolved 1911