Age: 0
Sex: female
Date: 18 Jul 1944
Place: Shropshire Union Canal, Chemistry Lock, Tarvin Road, Chester
The body of a newly-born female child was found in the Shropshire Union Canal at Chester.
It was found in Chemistry Lock off Tarvin Road wrapped up in a piece of flannelette and brown paper and put in a brown paper carrier bag that had the name Owen Owens on it.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Chester Chronicle - Saturday 12 August 1944
see Liverpool Evening Express - Friday 11 August 1944
see Unsolved 1944