Age: 0
Sex: male
Date: 19 Apr 1937
Place: Lower Heath, Hampsted
The body of a newly-born child was found dead in a brown paper parcel in a bathing pond enclosure at Lower Heath in Hampstead.
The child had died from shock due to strangulation and was found to have had a stocking wound tightly around its neck with one end shoved into its mouth.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Illustrated Police News - Thursday 20 May 1937