Age: 4 months
Sex: female
Date: 21 Aug 1909
Place: 55 Barkerhouse Road, Nelson
Florence Gates was suffocated.
It was heard that she was found dead in her cot at her home at 55 Barkerhouse Road, Nelson. Her parents said that they had put her in her cot on the Saturday night but that on the Sunday morning they had found her dead and discoloured, with marks across her face.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Burnley Express - Wednesday 25 August 1909, p6
see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Wednesday 25 August 1909
see Lincolnshire Echo - Wednesday 25 August 1909
see Unsolved 1909
