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Age: 0

Sex: male

Date: 14 Aug 1933

Place: Burgess Hill

The body of a newly born child was found in a pond off of the yard of the Keymer Brick and Tile Company.

The body was found by a man that had been in the yard showing a little boy how to work a motor boat on the pond after a little girl that they were with drew their attention to a brown paper parcel that was floating on the water on the far side. The man then tied a stone to a piece of string and threw it over the parcel and drew it in. However, when he got it he found that it smelt so badly that he took the children away and came back later with a man and found that it contained the body of a baby.


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see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 15 August 1933, p3

see Unsolved 1933