Baby

The body of a newly-born child was found wrapped up in a paper parcel near to a woman's home. The woman, who was 21 years old, was tried for infanticide but was acquitted. She said that she thought it was dead and then tied some string around its neck.

The post-mortem stated that the child had probably only lived for a very short time, probably about two minutes. The cause of death was given as strangulation although the doctor said that he didn't think that the child would have lived long in any case.