Baby

The decomposed body of a newly-born child was found in a ditch by the side of the Lower Forest Road.

It was found at 4pm Thursday, 3 June 1937 by a farmer that was driving some cows towards Melksham. He said that when he got to the turning on the New Road, the cows smelt something in the ditch and pulled it out and he said that he saw a parcel on the grass. He said that it was tied up with paper and that when the cows pulled it out they tore of the paper and he could see a child's ear. He said that he left it there and went off for the police.