Age: 0
Sex: male
Date: 8 Jun 1940
Place: Meadows, Meadow Lane, Chester
The body of a newly-born child was found on the Meadows near Meadow Lane, Chester.
The police went to the Meadows after a woman told them that a baby had been found there, and found the body close to a ditch towards the bottom end of Meadows Lane. There was nothing covering the child, and nothing nearby that might have been used to cover it.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Cheshire Observer - Saturday 15 June 1940, p7
see Unsolved 1940
