Age: 0
Sex: female
Date: 24 Jul 1939
Place: Station Hotel Garage, North Road, Durham
The body of a newly-born female child was found beside the Station Hotel Garage in North Road in Durham.
The body was found wrapped up in brown paper with a note that read, 'Please put my baby at rest. I am homeless, no money. May God punish him who has caused this. Broken-hearted mother'.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Friday 25 August 1939
see Unsolved 1939
